If you're a Hornets fan, you've fantasized about times like this. It's beyond just a hot streak, now.
The Charlotte Hornets completely punked the second ranked team in the East, the Boston Celtics, on their floor. The 118-89 final pushed the Hornets streak to beating teams by 15 or more to an NBA best six games.
The Hornets went out and turned TD Garden into their own personal playground. With this win, the Hornets have now beat each of the previous three NBA Champions, the Thunder, Celtics, and Nuggets, by 20 or more points this season. Charlotte is just the fourth team in NBA history to do that and the first in 60 years.
It seems like some type of milestone like that happens almost ever night, now, for the Charlotte Hornets. And the league is legitimately taking notice.
Not in a "wow, the Hornets are on a nice little hot streak!" kind of way, but in a "this team could seriously make noise and be a threat in the playoffs" kind of way.
Charlotte's turnaround mid-season is one of the more incredible things we've seen in this league in a long time. This team was 4-14 at one point in the season. Now they sit at 31-30 and are over .500 for the first time since being 1-0 after the season opener against the Nets.
On SportsCenter, last night, with Scott Van Pelt, Kendrick Perkins described the Hornets play as "agenda free" basketball. Playing for the good of the team and nothing in between. "They're going to make the playoffs this year and they're going to make a lot of noise." Perkins went on to say.
That's just one example of a national voice speaking this way about the Hornets.
Justin Termine, a Sirius XM NBA voice said he had been to over 25 Celtics games this year. "Charlotte was the best looking team I've seen in person so far." Termine said on X, last night.
Hornets fans have probably been wondering at different points if the other shoe was eventually going to drop. That's natural when you've had scarring from almost an entire franchise history worth of mediocrity.
There isn't another shoe. This is it. The Hornets are as elite as any team in the NBA, now. Enjoy this.