The Washington Wizards lost to the Charlotte Hornets, 119-115 on Saturday afternoon. The game was moved to earlier in the day due to an imminent ice storm that will hit Charlotte and the Carolinas. That same storm is expected to hit the Washington area as well with a combination of snow that could hit up to 12 inches or more in some areas.<\/p>\n
Washington did not get off to the right start with a 66-58 deficit. They let the Hornets shoot 57.9 percent from the field, 60 percent from the three point line and three Hornets scored in double figures alone. If the Hornets weren\u2019t so turnover prone, this game could have been a blowout at Washington\u2019s expense early on.<\/p>\n
Charlotte was able to maintain a double digit lead for the third quarter and expanded their lead to as many as 18 points early in the fourth quarter. But Washington made a big run throughout the fourth quarter to get the game within one possession when Jamir Watkins made a basket with less than two minutes left. Unfortunately, that wasn\u2019t enough for the Wizards to escape with a win. In the fourth quarter, the Wizards shot 53.8 percent from the field and shot 5-of-9 from the three point line while the Hornets short 44.4 percent and just 1-of-8 from the three point line themselves. This game was right there considering the comeback.<\/p>\n
Tre Johnson was a bright spot for the Wizards, scoring 26 points and getting the start. Alex Sarr added 24 points and Justin Champagnie added 15 points and 11 points off the bench.<\/p>\n
For the Hornets, Brandon Miller led with 21 points.<\/p>\n
The Wizards\u2019 next game is on Tuesday when they host the Portland Trail Blazers. Tip off is at 7 p.m. ET. See you then and stay safe from the snow and ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards lost to the Charlotte Hornets, 119-115 on Saturday afternoon. The game was moved to earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,14947,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-558973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-washington","11":"tag-washington-wizards","12":"tag-washington-wizards-recaps","13":"tag-washingtonwizards","14":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115953276609664794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}