Charlotte Hornets (14-26, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (23-14, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Thursday, 10:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles takes on the Charlotte Hornets after Luka Doncic scored 42 points in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 124-112 loss to the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n
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The Lakers are 11-7 on their home court. Los Angeles is 5-0 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 7-14 on the road. Charlotte is 6-7 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 14.8 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Lakers average 11.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 fewer makes per game than the Hornets allow (13.3). The Hornets average 15.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 more made shots on average than the 13.5 per game the Lakers give up.<\/p>\n
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The teams square off for the second time this season. In the last meeting on Nov. 11 the Lakers won 121-111 led by 38 points from Doncic, while Miles Bridges scored 34 points for the Hornets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Doncic is scoring 33.6 points per game with 8.0 rebounds and 8.7 assists for the Lakers. LeBron James is averaging 19.4 points and 4.6 rebounds while shooting 54.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kon Knueppel is scoring 19.1 points per game and averaging 5.1 rebounds for the Hornets. LaMelo Ball is averaging 4.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 4-5, averaging 113.1 points, 40.6 rebounds, 25.9 assists, 8.4 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hornets: 4-6, averaging 118.2 points, 47.9 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 5.9 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lakers: Jaxson Hayes: day to day (hamstring), Austin Reaves: out (calf), Adou Thiero: out (knee).<\/p>\n
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Hornets: Mason Plumlee: out (groin), Pat Connaughton: day to day (illness), Collin Sexton: day to day (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets (14-26, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (23-14, fifth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[3515,1013,7,684,473,3878,1585,1409,685,32,968,966,185,251,150,368,12445,10510,6,2761,4485,477,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-535667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-adou-thiero","9":"tag-austin-reaves","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-charlotte","12":"tag-charlotte-hornets","13":"tag-charlottehornets","14":"tag-collin-sexton","15":"tag-eastern-conference","16":"tag-hornets","17":"tag-jaxson-hayes","18":"tag-kon-knueppel","19":"tag-lamelo-ball","20":"tag-lebron-james","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","23":"tag-luka-doncic","24":"tag-mason-plumlee","25":"tag-miles-bridges","26":"tag-nba","27":"tag-pat-connaughton","28":"tag-points-per-game","29":"tag-sacramento-kings","30":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115892536391070822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}