{"id":854963,"date":"2026-09-21T02:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854963\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:44:09","slug":"hornets-waive-bez-mbeng-hoops-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854963\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets Waive Bez Mbeng | Hoops Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hornets have waived shooting guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mbengbe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bez Mbeng<\/a>, the team announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HornetsPR\/status\/2101811312544337953?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/09\/hornets-sign-bez-mbeng.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> the former Yale shooting guard earlier this month on an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/hoops-rumors-glossary-exhibit-10-contract-4.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Exhibit 10<\/a> deal, though his G League rights are still controlled by the Sioux City Skyforce, meaning that for the 23-year-old to qualify for a bonus worth $91K, the Hornets\u2019 G League affiliate, the Greensboro Swarm, would have to trade for him.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20194\u2033 guard played 15 games for the Jazz last season as a rookie, averaging 8.1 points, 4.1 assists to just 1.5 turnovers, and 2.3 steals per game, though he only shot 19.4% on three-pointers and 64.0% from the free throw line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hornets have waived shooting guard Bez Mbeng, the team announced (via Twitter). Charlotte signed the former Yale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[361058,355,99],"class_list":["post-854963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bez-mbeng","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854963","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=854963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}