{"id":385419,"date":"2026-08-30T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385419\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:04:47","slug":"charlotte-crown-claim-inaugural-upshot-league-championship-with-81-76-win-over-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385419\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Crown claim inaugural UPSHOT League championship with 81-76 win over Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; The Charlotte Crown are the first queens of the UPSHOT League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deja Kelly led the way with 29 points as Charlotte overcame a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to topple the Jacksonville Waves 81-76 in the first championship game in the league\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a 1-6 start, the Crown became the most dominant team in the league down the home stretch. Charlotte won 14 of its final 15 games entering this championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">KK Deans and AJ Durr both contributed on offense as well, the three 3-pointers each. Lele Grissett led the team on the glass with seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) &#8211; The Charlotte Crown are the first queens of the UPSHOT League. Deja Kelly led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-385419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}