The team’s 82-game regular season schedule was released. In this edition of Buzz City Beat, we look at if the Charlotte Hornets can make a big leap this year, Kemba Walker thinks Malik Monk and Dwayne Bacon will be fine and the Greensboro Swarm’s open tryouts.
Hornets to make big leap this season (SI.com)
All that said, don’t expect the Hornets to get back to 48 wins this season—that’s a pipe dream. But the team’s disappointing 2016-17 will prove to be more of an aberration than the norm.
Sports Illustrated picked Charlotte as one of four teams they expect to make a big jump during the 2017-18 campaign.