{"id":838291,"date":"2026-09-06T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838291\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:26:11","slug":"hornets-sion-james-faces-increased-competition-for-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838291\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets&#8217; Sion James: Faces increased competition for minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/26560014\/james\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James<\/a> will have added competition for playing time after the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/CHA\/charlotte-hornets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hornets<\/a> added Grayson Allen, Royce O&#8217;Neale and Dorian Finney-Smith this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>James saw a meaningful role in his rookie season, averaging 5.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 0.6 steals across 22.5 minutes per tilt in 82 regular-season games (19 starts). The Hornets took a significant step forward in 2025-26 and will look to continue building momentum behind Kon Knueppel and Brandon Miller (shoulder). The club added several veteran swingmen, and while not all of them are guaranteed a steady role, they could challenge James for minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James will have added competition for playing time after the Hornets added Grayson Allen, Royce O&#8217;Neale and Dorian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11949,117469,355,22496,99],"class_list":["post-838291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sion-james","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838291","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=838291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}