It's been almost a decade since the Charlotte Hornets last made the NBA playoffs. The team's seven-game barn burner against the Miami Heat in 2016 marks the last time Charlotte's professional basketball outfit suited up in the league's annual postseason tournament.
Just a few months after Kemba Walker, Al Jefferson, and the rest of the Charlotte Hornets walked off the floor following game seven in Miami, the franchise's G-League squad, the Greensboro Swarm, tipped off their first game in its history. Fast-forward nine years, and those same Swarm have done something that the Hornets haven't done since 2016: clinch a playoff berth.