{"id":870650,"date":"2026-10-29T07:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/870650\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:27:17","slug":"hornets-visit-wizards-friday-in-nba-cup-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/870650\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets visit Wizards Friday in NBA Cup group stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/charlotte-hornets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> (3-2, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/washington-wizards-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> (2-3, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Washington; Friday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LINE: Wizards -1.5; over\/under is 235.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Charlotte Hornets travel to play the Charlotte Hornets in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Washington finished 17-65 overall and 2-14 in Southeast Division action a season ago. The Wizards allowed opponents to score 124.9 points per game and shoot 48.8% from the field last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Charlotte went 44-38 overall, 11-5 in Southeast Division games and 23-18 on the road a season ago. The Hornets averaged 116.0 points per game last season, 17.8 on free throws and 49.2 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The teams meet for the second time this season. The Hornets won 110-103 in the last matchup on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Wizards: Tristan Vukcevic: out (hip), Jamir Watkins: out for season (acl), Tre Johnson: day to day (achilles), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/justin-champagnie-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Champagnie<\/a>: out (foot).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Hornets: Grant Williams: day to day (hamstring), Kylan Boswell: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kon-knueppel-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel<\/a>: day to day (hamstring), Coby White: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets (3-2, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (2-3, ninth in the Eastern Conference) Washington;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,473,78812,10683,968,1407,6,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-870650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-event_preview","tag-justin-champagnie","tag-kon-knueppel","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117523018100154422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870650","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=870650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}