{"id":465879,"date":"2025-10-23T11:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465879"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:58:42","slug":"brandon-miller-shines-in-return-scores-25-as-hornets-beat-nets-136-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/brandon-miller-shines-in-return-scores-25-as-hornets-beat-nets-136-117\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Miller Shines in Return, Scores 25 as Hornets Beat Nets 136-117"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1054\" data-end=\"1301\"><strong data-start=\"1054\" data-end=\"1072\">Brandon Miller<\/strong> made a stellar comeback, scoring <strong data-start=\"1106\" data-end=\"1119\">25 points<\/strong> to lead the <strong data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1153\">Charlotte Hornets<\/strong> past the <strong data-start=\"1163\" data-end=\"1180\">Brooklyn Nets<\/strong> 136-117 in their season opener. It was his first game since January 15, after missing 55 contests with a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1529\">The 2023 No. 2 pick erupted for 15 points in the second quarter, helping Charlotte build a 17-point halftime lead. <strong data-start=\"1418\" data-end=\"1435\">Miles Bridges<\/strong> added 18 points and 11 rebounds, while <strong data-start=\"1475\" data-end=\"1490\">LaMelo Ball<\/strong> contributed 20 points and 8 assists.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1531\" data-end=\"1771\">Rookies <strong data-start=\"1539\" data-end=\"1555\">Kon Knueppel<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1560\" data-end=\"1580\">Ryan Kalkbrenner<\/strong> started and impressed, combining for 21 points as the Hornets set a <strong data-start=\"1649\" data-end=\"1705\">franchise record with nine players in double figures<\/strong>. Miller\u2019s return signals a promising new chapter for Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wThGMrFRnk8?si=z3RqmJ2mLDVJc1Jt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Miller made a stellar comeback, scoring 25 points to lead the Charlotte Hornets past the Brooklyn Nets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Charlotte-Hornets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465879"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465879"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465879"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}