NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Brandon Miller scored 25 points, Miles Bridges had 19, and the Charlotte Hornets routed the Brooklyn Nets 117-86 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Moussa Diabat\u00e9 finished with 10 points and 12 rebounds while LaMelo Ball had 14 points, nine assists and seven rebounds to help the Hornets (40-36) stop a two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Josh Minott scored 14 points for the lottery-bound Nets (18-58), who have lost 11 of their last 12 games.<\/p>\n
Charlotte (40-36) is tied with the Miami Heat for ninth in the Eastern Conference, a half-game behind Orlando.<\/p>\n
The Hornets matched their season low for points allowed. Charlotte also allowed 86 points in a 25-point win at Toronto on Dec. 5.<\/p>\n
The Hornets rebounded from consecutive home losses Saturday to Philadelphia and Sunday to Boston by taking a 35-18 lead at the end of the first quarter. Miller scored 16 points on 5-of-5 shooting – including three 3-points \u2013 and Charlotte shot 54.5% (12 for 22) from the field and 40% (6 for 15) from beyond the 3-point line in the period.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn trimmed the deficit to 47-39 after rookie Drake Powell hit a 3-pointer with 5:19 remaining in the second quarter, but got no closer. Charlotte outscored the Nets 70-47 the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
The Hornets had 28 assists on 41 made field goals and outrebounded the Nets 56-41.<\/p>\n
Hornets: Host Phoenix on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Nets: Host Atlanta on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Brandon Miller scored 25 points, Miles Bridges had 19, and the Charlotte Hornets routed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,970,670,247,3803,65387,7272,966,10510,6,671,29499,29496,29494,62644,29498,43294,43295,62660],"class_list":{"0":"post-693392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-miller","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklynnets","13":"tag-hornets-nets-score","14":"tag-josh-minott","15":"tag-lamelo-ball","16":"tag-miles-bridges","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nets","19":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","20":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","21":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","22":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","23":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","24":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","25":"tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","26":"tag-product-40804-ap-north-carolina-sports-only"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693392","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=693392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}