{"id":599136,"date":"2026-02-12T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/599136\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:10:15","slug":"grant-williams-by-the-numbers-versus-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/599136\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Williams by the numbers versus Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 12, 2026, 6:31 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Charlotte (26-29) defeated Atlanta (26-30), 110-107, Wednesday at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former Vol <a href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/mens-basketball\/2026\/02\/09\/detroit-pistons-charlotte-hornets-nba-game-grant-williams-tobias-harris-chaz-lanier\/88586762007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grant<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/mens-basketball\/2026\/02\/09\/detroit-pistons-charlotte-hornets-nba-game-grant-williams-tobias-harris-chaz-lanier\/88586762007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams<\/a> started and played 32 minutes for the Hornets. He totaled seven points, eight rebounds, five assists and one block. Williams converted 1-of-9 field goal attempts, 0-of-6 three-point attempts and 5-of-7 free throw attemppts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He played at Tennessee from 2016-19 and was a two-time SEC Player of the Year, a 2019 NCAA unanimous first team All-American and a two-time SEC Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On May 17, 2019, Williams announced he would forgo his senior season and enter the NBA draft. He was selected by Boston in the first round of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/mens-basketball\/2019\/04\/09\/grant-williams-will-test-nba-draft-will-not-rule-out-return\/79445187007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2019 NBA draft<\/a>\u00a0(No. 22 overall).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Williams appeared in 104 games, including 101 starts, for the Vols. He averaged 15.7 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Hornets will next play Feb. 19 versus Houston. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. EST at Spectrum Center.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__lp gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/mens-basketball\/2025\/06\/24\/photos-guard-chaz-lanier-tennessee-vols-college-basketball\/84337752007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Photos of Chaz Lanier playing for Tennessee basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770912615_865_84337791007-usatsi-25348781.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 12, 2026, 6:31 a.m. ET Charlotte (26-29) defeated Atlanta (26-30), 110-107, Wednesday at Spectrum Center in Charlotte,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[72400,676,208,3874,7,677,6,77586,73480,72696,72422,72526,73815,72687,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-599136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-hawks","11":"tag-atlantahawks","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-hawks","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sstssportscollegevolunteersmens-basketball","16":"tag-sstsnmens-basketball","17":"tag-tagfacebook","18":"tag-tagnba","19":"tag-tagsmg-timely","20":"tag-tagtennessee-volunteers-mens-basketball","21":"tag-tagtwitter","22":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116058536548649128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599136","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=599136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}