On the one hand, the Greensboro Swarm should have come around a lot sooner than 2016. North Carolina is a state packed to the brim with basketball heritage, filled with devoted fans and producing some of the greatest stars of the game.
With high profile minor league teams for baseball, hockey, and soccer already seeing success, it seems a no-brainer to have an NBA D-League team suit up on Tobacco Road. With the state’s largest population centers only a few hours apart, planting a team midway between Raleigh and Charlotte was a no-brainer move that seemingly could have happened a decade ago.