{"id":1930875,"date":"2026-09-02T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930875"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:14:12","slug":"deja-kelly-earns-playoff-mvp-award-leads-charlotte-to-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930875","title":{"rendered":"Deja Kelly earns playoff MVP award, leads Charlotte to league title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UNC and Oregon standout Deja Kelly delivered the signature performance of her professional career and a championship. Kelly scored a game-high 29 points to lead the Charlotte Crown to an 81\u201376 comeback win over the Jacksonville Waves in the inaugural Upshot League championship game Saturday night at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/02\/deja-kelly-earns-playoff-mvp-award-leads-charlotte-to-league-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deja Kelly earns playoff MVP award, leads Charlotte to league title<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/02\/deja-kelly-earns-playoff-mvp-award-leads-charlotte-to-league-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UNC and Oregon standout Deja Kelly delivered the signature performance of her professional career and a championship. Kelly scored a game-high 29 points to lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930875","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930876,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930875\/revisions\/1930876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}