{"id":385829,"date":"2026-08-31T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:38:10","slug":"charlotte-crown-rally-past-jacksonville-to-win-inaugural-upshot-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385829\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Crown rally past Jacksonville to win inaugural UPSHOT championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Crown rally past Jacksonville to win inaugural UPSHOT championship<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjcl.com\/news-team\/ad23c844-5df8-4585-9929-a37c35fb6107\" aria-label=\"Corey Howard profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ad23c844-5df8-4585-9929-a37c35fb6107_1787598991.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Corey Howard\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Charlotte Crown rallied from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat the Jacksonville Waves 81-76 on Saturday and win the inaugural UPSHOT League championship.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Charlotte trailed for much of the game before taking control in the fourth quarter. The Crown outscored Jacksonville 32-19 in the final period, overcoming the deficit and taking the lead in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Deja Kelly led the way for Charlotte with a game-high 29 points and was named the championship&#8217;s Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Kelly&#8217;s performance was complemented by clutch 3-pointers from KK Deans and AD Durr, who each connected on three 3-pointers. LeLe Grissett also provided a strong presence on the boards, finishing with a team-high seven rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Crown rally past Jacksonville to win inaugural UPSHOT championship JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Charlotte Crown rallied from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3108,20084,4250,154596,116,118,117,25429,101270,1271,3334],"class_list":["post-385829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-basketball","tag-championship","tag-charlotte","tag-crown","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-professional","tag-upshot-league","tag-waves","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385829","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=385829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}