{"id":484906,"date":"2026-02-23T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484906\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:42:07","slug":"hornets-129-112-wizards-feb-22-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484906\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets 129-112 Wizards (Feb 22, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432816\/lamelo-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaMelo Ball<\/a> made a career-high 10 3-pointers and scored 37 points to help the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cha\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> rout the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> 129-112 on Sunday night for a four-game season sweep.<\/p>\n<p>              Ball attempted 15 3-pointers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061575\/kon-knueppel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel<\/a> added 28 points, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433287\/brandon-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Miller<\/a> had 22. The Hornets made 12 of 14 3-pointers in the third quarter to blow open the game, and finished 25 of 46 from long range.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5104155\/bilal-coulibaly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> scored 15 of his 17 points in the first quarter for Washington. The Wizards dropped to 16-40, missing a chance for their first three-game winning streak since February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>              Charlotte had lost three of four since a nine-game winning streak ended just before the All-Star break. The Hornets (27-31) are 10th in the Eastern Conference, a half-game behind Atlanta and 1 1\/2 games ahead of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>              The Hornets led 61-56 at the halft. Miller hit two 3s and Ball added another within Charlotte\u2019s first four possessions of the third quarter to make it 70-56.<\/p>\n<p>              Moments later, Knueppel connected on back-to-back 3s to stretch the lead to 15 for the first time. The Wizards never got closer than 13 again.<\/p>\n<p>              Knueppel made five 3-pointers and has am NBA-high 198 this season. He&#8217;s is nine away from surpassing the rookie record set by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4594327\/keegan-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Murray<\/a> in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Hornets: At Chicago on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Wzards: At Atlanta on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; \u2014 LaMelo Ball made a career-high 10 3-pointers and scored 37 points to help the Charlotte&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-484906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}