Three days removed from their takedown of the NBA’s top team record-wise, it was back to business for the Charlotte Hornets against one of the league’s upper echelon.
Not Milwaukee. Not Brooklyn. Not Miami.
This was the surprising Washington WIzards, the team that sat atop the Eastern Conference standings and the very one the Hornets are chasing in the Southeast Division. But coach James Borrego insisted it didn’t make much of a difference.
“My goal here is we’re not looking at our opponent, raising our level to where our opponent’s at,” Borrego said before tipoff.