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Charlotte Hornets do something that's been unusual lately: Win

WFAE | By Woody Cain
Published January 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM EST

For the first time in a month, the Charlotte Hornets won a basketball game. They beat the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night 115-104, snapping a 10-game losing streak. LaMelo Ball led Charlotte with 32 points and 10 rebounds and seven assists.

"Nobody likes losing, especially consecutively like that. Just L after L, so it was definitely a time to get a win. Now we just gonna try to use the energy and get another win and go from there," he said.

The Hornets start a five-game road trip on Thursday night in Los Angeles.
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Woody Cain
Woody is a Charlotte native who came to WFAE from the world of NASCAR where he was host of NASCAR Today for MRN Radio as well as a pit reporter, turn announcer and host of the NASCAR Live pre race show for Cup Series races. Before that, he was a news anchor at WBT radio in Charlotte, a traffic reporter, editor of The Charlotte Observer’s University City Magazine, News/Sports Director at WEGO-AM in Concord and a Swiss Army knife in local cable television. His first job after graduating from Appalachian State University was news reporter at The Daily Independent in Kannapolis. Along the way he’s covered everything from murder trials and a national political convention to high school sports and minor league baseball.
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