{"id":807904,"date":"2026-08-10T00:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/807904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:36:19","slug":"sion-james-joins-chet-holmgren-at-open-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/807904\/","title":{"rendered":"Sion James joins Chet Holmgren at open gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 9, 2026, 1:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Hornets guard Sion James played in all 82 games during his rookie season.James struggled with offensive efficiency, shooting just 37.1% from the field.He is working on improving his finishing at the rim during the offseason.James was recently seen practicing with other NBA players, including Chet Holmgren and Jared McCain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a data-autotag=\"e256e96c-b58f-4300-a36c-9b2c6d336797\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/charlotte-hornets\/5312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> guard Sion James had a solid rookie campaign, earning his way into the Hornets rotation as a second-round pick out of Duke. James impressed with his defense and durability, appearing in all 82 of Charlotte&#8217;s regular season games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">However, James was one of the league&#8217;s least efficient rotation players when it came to finishing at the rim. James shot just 40.4% on 2-point attempts and 37.1% from the field. For that reason, James has been developing as a finisher this summer. In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HornetsReddit\/status\/2086257038330376428\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a> posted to social media, James was seen scoring around the basket at a PLYRS UNTD run with many other current and former NBA players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">James was working well with the <a data-autotag=\"cd165858-eeda-4db8-a84a-db7a782e61e3\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> duo of Chet Holmgren and Jared McCain. The team also featured a former Charlotte Hornets center, Frank Kaminsky, the No. 9 overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. Danny Wolf (Brooklyn Nets), Luka Garza (Boston Celtics) and Ty Jerome (Memphis Grizzlies) were also present.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:3|\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 9, 2026, 1:00 p.m. ET Charlotte Hornets guard Sion James played in all 82 games during his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[72400,7,684,473,3878,685,6,90348,72761,72762,72404,72468,72487,74794,72444,72422,72484,72405,72406,72558,72403],"class_list":["post-807904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlottehornets","tag-hornets","tag-nba","tag-sourcerookie-wire","tag-sstssportsnbarookie","tag-sstsnrookie","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcharlotte-hornets","tag-tagchet-holmgren","tag-tagjared-mccain","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117068417190002393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807904","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=807904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}