{"id":485307,"date":"2026-02-24T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485307"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:04:12","slug":"charlotte-hornets-coby-white-expected-to-make-charlotte-debut-tuesday-vs-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/charlotte-hornets-coby-white-expected-to-make-charlotte-debut-tuesday-vs-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets&#8217; Coby White expected to make Charlotte debut Tuesday vs Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1436\" data-end=\"1715\"><strong data-start=\"1436\" data-end=\"1450\">Coby White<\/strong> is expected to make his <strong data-start=\"1475\" data-end=\"1496\">Charlotte Hornets<\/strong> debut on <strong data-start=\"1506\" data-end=\"1517\">Tuesday<\/strong>, fittingly against his former team, the <strong data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1575\">Chicago Bulls<\/strong>. White has been upgraded to <strong data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1616\">probable<\/strong> as he continues his return from a <strong data-start=\"1651\" data-end=\"1671\">left calf strain<\/strong> suffered shortly before the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1717\" data-end=\"2071\">Charlotte acquired White (and <strong data-start=\"1747\" data-end=\"1762\">Mike Conley<\/strong>, who was later waived) from Chicago in exchange for <strong data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"1832\">Collin Sexton<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1834\" data-end=\"1851\">Ousmane Dieng<\/strong> (later traded to the <strong data-start=\"1873\" data-end=\"1892\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong>) and <strong data-start=\"1898\" data-end=\"1924\">two second-round picks<\/strong>. The deal initially included a third second-rounder to Chicago, but it was amended once it became clear White would need time to rehab the injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2073\" data-end=\"2264\">White is averaging <strong data-start=\"2092\" data-end=\"2107\">18.6 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2109\" data-end=\"2125\">3.7 rebounds<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2130\" data-end=\"2145\">4.7 assists<\/strong> this season. After starting 26 of 29 games for the Bulls, he\u2019s expected to play mainly <strong data-start=\"2233\" data-end=\"2250\">off the bench<\/strong> in Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgraded to probable after a left calf strain, White is set to face his former team. He arrived at the deadline in a multi-piece trade<\/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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-485307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/485307","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=485307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485307\/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=485307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485307"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485307"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485307"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}