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Rank the five best teams in Hornets history

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1. 1997-98: Didn't win as many games as the '96-97 team but was far better positioned to compete for a championship. This squad had what you need to win a title (sharpshooting SF as alpha-dog, bruising C and PF combo in their prime, potent scoring bench with Curry and B.J., good coaching with Cowens). Had the Bulls not been there, we'd have been facing the Jazz for all the marbles

2. 1992-93: Our only Big Three (LJ, 'Zo, Muggsy) with Kendall Gill and Curry too. This team had the most individual talent but had a weak-ass bench

3. 2015-16: Top to bottom, the second-most talented roster we've ever fielded. Kemba, Nic, Al and Lin could theoretically take over games. Cody had come into his own and as a playoff team, we were dangerous with Kemba and Lin scoring at will. Also lost a tiebreaker for the division title

4. 1996-97: Best individual season by a Hornet (Glen Rice) but got swept in the playoffs by the damn Knicks. 

5: 2000-01: Closest we've ever come to the Conference Finals with a roster of above-average guys and role players who overachieved like crazy

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Have to include the Bobcats.  I would say the 2010 Bobcats crack that list.  They are my favorite Charlotte basketball roster ever.  Also my favorite Charlotte uniforms ever.

PG: Raymond Felton / DJ Augustin

SG: Stephen Jackson / Gerald Henderson

SF: Gerald Wallace 

PF: Boris Diaw / Tyrus Thomas

C: Tyson Chandler / Nazr Mohammed / Theo Ratliff

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LOL that Bobcats team where Chandler didn't even play in the playoffs (and really didn't try during regular season either).   Ratliff was starting in the playoffs for us if I remember lol.

Wallace and Jack was always fun to watch though.   Looking back, if we got full effort from Tyson and Diaw that year, we would have had a nastier team.   Tyrus came on like a beast and then was terrible after the signing, so weird.

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