{"id":1522307,"date":"2021-12-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1522307"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:48:01","slug":"what-the-short-handed-hornets-did-friday-shows-why-theyre-going-to-make-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1522307","title":{"rendered":"What the short-handed Hornets did Friday shows why they\u2019re going to make the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the Charlotte Hornets won an NBA game Friday night defies logical explanation, both on a macro and micro level. But somehow they did, edging Sacramento 124-123, in a victory \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article256453221.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article256453221.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article256453221.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"What the short-handed Hornets did Friday shows why they\u2019re going to make the playoffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Charlotte Hornets won an NBA game Friday night defies logical explanation, both on a macro and micro level. But somehow they did, edging Sacramento&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903365,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522307\/revisions\/1903365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}