Charlotte Hornets (1-0, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (1-0, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia hosts the Charlotte Hornets after Tyrese Maxey scored 40 points in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 117-116 win over the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia finished 24-58 overall, 15-37 in Eastern Conference games and 12-29 at home during the 2024-25 season. The 76ers averaged 109.6 points per game while allowing opponents to score 115.8 last season.<\/p>\n
Charlotte went 19-63 overall and 10-42 in Eastern Conference action during the 2024-25 season. The Hornets averaged 14.7 points off of turnovers, 16.3 second-chance points and 33.8 bench points last season.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: 76ers: Paul George: day to day (knee), Trendon Watford: day to day (hamstring), Jared McCain: out (thumb).<\/p>\n
Hornets: Grant Williams: day to day (acl), Josh Green: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets (1-0, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (1-0, third in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10378,1165,10377,69,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-13660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-10378","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}