Greensboro Swarm Announce 2024-25 Opening Night Roster
By Greensboro Swarm Staff /November 8, 2024
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Swarm Finalize Basketball Operations Staff
The Greensboro Swarm, the NBA G League affiliate of the Charlotte Hornets, announced today the opening night roster for the 2024-25 season. The Swarm tips-off its ninth season on the road this Sunday, November 10, against the Capital City Go-Go (Washington Wizards affiliate).
Two-way players entering the season are KJ Simpson, Moussa Diabaté, and Jared Rhoden. KJ Simpson was selected by the Hornets in the second round (42nd overall) in the 2024 NBA Draft while Diabaté was selected by the Clippers in the second round (43rd overall) of the 2022 NBA Draft, and Rhoden went undrafted out of Seton Hall.
Keyontae Johnson, Joel Soriano, and RaeQuan Battle are the three affiliate players represented. The roster lists five returners from the Swarm’s 2023-24 NBA G League roster (MJ Walker Jr., Terrell Brown Jr., Marcus Garrett, Kent Bazemore, and Jaylen Sims). Greensboro 2024-25 NBA G League Draft pick Malik Hall is also included.
The Opening Night roster is below.
| 2024-25 GREENSBORO SWARM ROSTER | |||||||
| NO. | NAME | POS | HT | WT | DOB | PREVIOUS/COUNTRY | CLASSIFICATION |
| 1 | MJ Walker Jr. | F | 6-5 | 219 | 03/28/98 | Florida St./USA | Returning Rights |
| 3 | Terrell Brown Jr. | G | 6-3 | 175 | 04/23/98 | Washington/USA | Returning Rights |
| 7 | Keyontae Johnson | F | 6-4 | 230 | 05/24/00 | Kansas St./USA | Affiliate |
| 11 | Joel Soriano | C | 6-10 | 256 | 01/30/00 | St. John’s/USA | Affiliate |
| 13 | Marcus Garrett | G | 6-5 | 205 | 11/09/98 | Kansas/USA | Returning Rights |
| 14 | Moussa Diabaté* | F | 6-9 | 210 | 01/21/02 | Michigan/France | Two-Way |
| 20 | Malik Hall | F | 6-8 | 220 | 07/25/00 | Michigan St./USA | Draft |
| 21 | RaeQuan Battle | G | 6-5 | 195 | 02/19/01 | West Virginia/USA | Affiliate |
| 22 | Caleb McConnell | G | 6-7 | 195 | 06/08/99 | Rutgers/USA | Trade |
| 24 | Kent Bazemore | F | 6-5 | 202 | 07/01/89 | Old Dominion/USA | Returning Rights |
| 25 | KJ Simpson* | G | 6-2 | 190 | 08/08/02 | Colorado/USA | Two-Way |
| 27 | Jared Rhoden* | G | 6-5 | 210 | 08/27/99 | Seton Hall/USA | Two-Way |
| 30 | Jaylen Sims | G | 6-7 | 210 | 12/11/98 | UNC Wilmington/USA | Returning Rights |
*Denotes two−way player
The entire Swarm coaching and basketball operations staff is below.
| 2024-25 GREENSBORO SWARM BASKETBALL OPERATIONS | |
| TITLE | NAME |
| General Manager | Cole Teal |
| Head Coach | D.J. Bakker |
| Assistant Coach | Nathan Peavy |
| Assistant Coach | David Noel III |
| Assistant Coach | Alex Ruoff |
| Head Video Coordinator &Player Development Assistant | Brian Boyle |
| Director of Player Development | Markes Royster |
| Head Athletic Performance Coach | Luka Svilar |
| Head Athletic Trainer | Bryan Tachibana |
| Assistant Athletic Trainer | Chelsea Casper |
| Basketball Operations Coordinator | Irfan Fazal |
| Basketball Operations Apprentice | Jessica Breland |
| Basketball Operations Assistant | Christian Featherson |
| Basketball Operations Assistant | Alex Bowman |
| Basketball Operations Assistant | Trey Smith |
| Athletic Training Intern | Jimmesia Jones |