{"id":318191,"date":"2026-10-31T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318191\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:00:07","slug":"charlotte-plays-conference-foe-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318191\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte plays conference foe Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Philadelphia 76ers (5-1, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (3-3, seventh 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=\"\">Charlotte, North Carolina; Saturday, 6 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: 76ers -1.5; over\/under is 216.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia visits Charlotte for an Eastern Conference matchup.<\/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 and 26-26 in Eastern Conference games last season. The Hornets averaged 116.0 points per game last season, 45.2 in the paint, 15.6 off of turnovers and 13.3 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Philadelphia finished 45-37 overall and 27-25 in Eastern Conference games during the 2025-26 season. The 76ers averaged 18.9 points off of turnovers, 15.4 second-chance points and 32.4 bench points last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Hornets: Grant Williams: out (hamstring), Kylan Boswell: out (knee), Kon Knueppel: out (hamstring), Coby White: out (calf).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">76ers: Jaylen Brown: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/ariel-hukporti-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Hukporti<\/a>: out for season (achilles), Jabari Walker: out (knee), Tacko Fall: out (quadriceps), Dominick Barlow: out (back).<\/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":"Associated Press Philadelphia 76ers (5-1, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (3-3, seventh in the Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39662,56878,14498,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-318191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ariel-hukporti","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318191","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=318191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}