Charlotte Hornets (32-33, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (31-34, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Deni Avdija and the Portland Trail Blazers host the Charlotte Hornets in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are 17-15 in home games. Portland gives up 118.0 points and has been outscored by 2.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Hornets have gone 18-16 away from home. Charlotte averages 115.9 points and has outscored opponents by 3.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are shooting 45.1% from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points lower than the 46.9% the Hornets allow to opponents. The Hornets average 115.9 points per game, 2.1 fewer than the 118.0 the Trail Blazers allow.<\/p>\n
The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Hornets defeated the Trail Blazers 109-93 in their last meeting on Feb. 28. Brandon Miller led the Hornets with 26 points, and Jrue Holiday led the Trail Blazers with 25 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Avdija is averaging 24.3 points, seven rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Trail Blazers. Holiday is averaging 21.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LaMelo Ball is scoring 19.3 points per game with 4.8 rebounds and 7.3 assists for the Hornets. Kon Knueppel is averaging 21.0 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 51.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 5-5, averaging 111.8 points, 45.0 rebounds, 25.1 assists, 9.0 steals and 6.9 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hornets: 6-4, averaging 117.0 points, 47.2 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Shaedon Sharpe: out (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Hornets: Tidjane Salaun: day to day (knee).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets (32-33, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (31-34, 10th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,970,684,473,3878,125,76733,980,685,2038,966,6,446,1567,1773,6912,2470,687,17593,471,4426,66],"class_list":["post-648395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-miller","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlottehornets","tag-damian-lillard","tag-data-skrive","tag-deni-avdija","tag-hornets","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-lamelo-ball","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nc-state-wire","tag-north-carolina","tag-or-state-wire","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-portland-pilots","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-shaedon-sharpe","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648395","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=648395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}