Kirk Haston was home alone Wednesday near Linden, Tenn., watching the NBA draft, yet not really alone.

Minutes after hearing the Charlotte Hornets chose him 16th overall, Haston drove to the cemetery where his mother is buried. It was the plan he devised months ago when he turned pro following three seasons at Indiana.

"I knelt down and told her we'd done it," Haston recalled Thursday.

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