{"id":622242,"date":"2026-02-24T16:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/622242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:52:23","slug":"coby-white-set-to-make-charlotte-debut-for-bulls-revenge-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/622242\/","title":{"rendered":"Coby White set to make Charlotte debut for Bulls revenge game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/nba-stories\/nba-rumors-bulls-coby-white-trade-deadline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets are set for the debut of guard Coby White<\/a>, who is dealing with a left calf strain. White&#8217;s going to be ready for Charlotte when the team takes on the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday. He <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-02-24_08_45AM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is listed as probable<\/a> on the team&#8217;s injury report.<\/p>\n<p>White used to play for the Bulls, so this will be a bit of a revenge game for the veteran guard. This season, White is averaging 18.6 points per game. He was dealt to the Hornets earlier in February, after spending several years in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte holds a 27-31 record on the season. The club has lost two of their last three contests.<\/p>\n<p>Coby White is ready to make his Hornets debut<\/p>\n<p>White played his college basketball in North Carolina, so he will be playing in front of a lot of fans in Charlotte. The talented guard has averaged double-figures in scoring in nearly every NBA season he has played.<\/p>\n<p>White says he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/former-tar-heel-and-n-c-native-coby-white-thrilled-to-be-traded-to-charlotte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wasn&#8217;t entirely too surprised<\/a> to be traded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery other time in my career I was kind of like, I don\u2019t think [it] was [going to] really happen,\u201d White said, per the Associated Press. \u201cBut now just with the circumstances, you know, there\u2019s a lot of us that are coming into free agency this summer. And the team had to kind of go in a direction, a certain direction. So, I really wasn\u2019t surprised or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This season with the Bulls, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/chicago-bulls\/bulls-news-coby-white-insane-1st-half-vs-pacers-fans-going-wild\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White started 26 games while appearing in 29 contests<\/a>. He last played in a game on February 3 between the Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks. He scored 21 points in that game.<\/p>\n<p>White is shooting close to 44 percent from the field this season. His shooting stats have been down from last season, when he averaged more than 20 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte and Chicago play Tuesday at 8:00 ET. Chicago has a 24-34 record this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets are set for the debut of guard Coby White, who is dealing with a left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,963,685,6,14502],"class_list":{"0":"post-622242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-coby-white","13":"tag-hornets","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116126649494542582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622242","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=622242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}