{"id":901051,"date":"2026-10-31T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/901051\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:35:14","slug":"aj-dybantsa-sharp-in-his-home-debut-as-the-wizards-smother-charlotte-95-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/901051\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa sharp in his home debut as the Wizards smother Charlotte 95-79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Trae Young had 21 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, AJ Dybantsa scored 17 points in his home debut, and the Washington Wizards routed the Charlotte Hornets 95-79 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Washington held the Hornets to 13 points in the third quarter, cruising to a comfortable victory on the first night of NBA Cup play. Anthony Davis had 25 points and 13 rebounds for the Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>Dybantsa wasn&#8217;t available to start the season because of an ankle injury, but this year&#8217;s No. 1 overall draft pick finally played Wednesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wizards-dybantsa-574e911a7ec8899cbafd9ae82816da42?ref=alexandriabrief.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scoring 19 points<\/a> in a loss at Cleveland. He looked composed again Friday in front of the home fans. Dybantsa had an impressive putback in the fourth quarter negated by a basket interference call. A short while later, he switched hands while driving before banking in a shot while being fouled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-sans text-[11px] font-bold tracking-[0.16em] uppercase text-accent-readable !mt-0 mb-2\">\n                    Member story\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body text-[15px] md:text-[16px] leading-[1.5] text-ink-3 m-0 max-w-[540px]\">\n            This story is for free members. Upgrade your membership to continue reading.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Trae Young had 21 points, nine assists and seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-901051","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\/901051","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=901051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}