Phoenix Suns (42-33, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (40-36, 10th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Charlotte Hornets host the Phoenix Suns in non-conference action.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 19-19 on their home court. Charlotte ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference at limiting opponent scoring, allowing just 111.4 points while holding opponents to 46.7% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Suns are 18-19 in road games. Phoenix is 7-10 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Hornets average 16.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.1 more made shots on average than the 12.1 per game the Suns allow. The Suns are shooting 45.4% from the field, 1.3% lower than the 46.7% the Hornets’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. In the last meeting on March 9 the Suns won 111-99 led by 30 points from Devin Booker, while LaMelo Ball scored 22 points for the Hornets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ball is averaging 19.6 points and 7.1 assists for the Hornets. Brandon Miller is averaging 19.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Booker is scoring 25.7 points per game with 3.9 rebounds and 6.0 assists for the Suns. Jalen Green is averaging 19.8 points and 4.5 rebounds while shooting 45.5% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 7-3, averaging 118.7 points, 45.5 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 6.7 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Suns: 3-6, averaging 115.5 points, 42.6 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hornets: None listed.<\/p>\n
Suns: Mark Williams: out (foot), Haywood Highsmith: day to day (knee), Amir Coffey: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Phoenix Suns (42-33, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (40-36, 10th in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-691663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116328962688214183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691663","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=691663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}