Last season — the most successful one since the franchise returned to Charlotte — ended in Florida.
Florida.
It ended crazily, as things often do in that state. It ended in Game 7, only one removed from future Hall-of-Famer Dwyane Wade staring down an overgrown boy in purple and morphing into a sharpshooting version of our own beloved in-game announcer (and one-time long range sniper) Dell Curry.
But now, He-Who-Must-No-Be-named has taken off to his home Chicago, and a once-immortal franchise who for years held the Southeast Division hostage, now looks to be cooling its jets, rejoining the rest of the pack.