For more than a decade, the city of Charleston has been one of the top destinations for tourists across the globe.

Charleston has also become the destination of choice for another demographic as well — professional sports franchises.

For the fourth straight year, an NBA team has descended upon the Lowcountry for its preseason training camp.

The Charlotte Hornets, who have played a pair of exhibition games in the Lowcountry since 2009, will spend the rest of the week in Charleston, working out at The Citadel’s McAlister Field House in preparation for the 2025-26 NBA season.

In 2022, the Philadelphia 76ers worked out at The Citadel for a week before the start of the regular season, while the New York Knicks held back-to-back training camps at the downtown military school in 2023-24.

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