Charlotte Hornets team up with Food Lion to feed local kids<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s the first time in a decade that Charlotte is hosting postseason pro-basketball.<\/p>\n
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The Hornets finished the season as the No. 9 seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
The team must beat the Heat to advance, a team they have beaten once in four meetings this season.<\/p>\n
If the Hornets win, they will play the loser of the No. 7 and 8 matchup: The Orlando Magic or the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n
If they win that game, they will be the No. 8 seed in the playoffs and play the No. 1 seed, the Detroit Pistons, in a best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n
The Hornets were 15-26 in the first half of the season.<\/p>\n
In the final 41 games, the team went 29-12, one of the best second-half records in the league.<\/p>\n
Hornets forward Miles Bridges spoke with Channel 9\u2019s DaShawn Brown earlier this year about what he credits as part of the team\u2019s winning mentality.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEverybody\u2019s been healthy,\u201d said Bridges. \u201cIt\u2019s easier to play with guys that you have chemistry with. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve been doing, building chemistry over this time. We really didn\u2019t have a chance to play with each other, and now that we do. We\u2019re showing what a healthy Hornets team looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown and Channel 9\u2019s sports director Phil Orban will be live at Spectrum Center with player interviews and a breakdown of the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cHornets Playoff Push\u201d is at 7 p.m. on Monday on Channel 9.<\/p>\n
VIDEO: Channel 9 sits down with Hornets center Moussa Diabat\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets will tip off at Spectrum Center Tuesday night against the Miami Heat in the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,188,1409,685,189,10510,6357,6,76,207,29314],"class_list":{"0":"post-709848","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-detroit-pistons","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-hornets","15":"tag-miami-heat","16":"tag-miles-bridges","17":"tag-moussa-diabate","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-orlando-magic","20":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","21":"tag-spectrum-center"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116399238225567298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709848","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=709848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}