CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Brandon Miller scored 22 points, Kon Knueppel added 20 and the Charlotte Hornets beat the Indiana Pacers 129-108 on Friday night for their eighth victory in 10 games.<\/p>\n
Miles Bridges scored 19 points and LaMelo Ball had 18 points and nine assists to help the Hornets improve to 42-26. Charlotte was 24 of 49 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Pascal Siakam led Indiana with 30 points. The Pacers (18-59) had won two in a row.<\/p>\n
The Hornets entered the night in eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings \u2014 1 1\/2 games behind Philadelphia and Toronto.<\/p>\n
They left no doubt about this one.<\/p>\n
Behind a flurry of early 3-pointers \u2014 including three in the first quarter from reserve Sion James \u2014 the Hornets raced to a 31-11 lead. Charlotte shot 14 of 27 from 3-point range in the first half to take a 69-50 lead.<\/p>\n
Knueppel, who set the franchise record for 3s in a season Thursday night against Phoenix, finished 3 of 7 from beyond the arc and also showed versatility in his game with a coast-to-coast layup.<\/p>\n
Ball had five 3s while Miller and James finished with four each. James had 13 points, two shy of his career high.<\/p>\n
Quenton Jackson added 16 points for Indiana.<\/p>\n
Pacers: At Cleveland on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Hornets: At Minnesota on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Brandon Miller scored 22 points, Kon Knueppel added 20 and the Charlotte Hornets beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,970,684,113,126,3866,966,10510,6,114,87695,29499,29496,279,29494,62644,29498,73631,62660,10986,1560,680],"class_list":{"0":"post-696983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-miller","10":"tag-charlotte","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-indianapacers","14":"tag-lamelo-ball","15":"tag-miles-bridges","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-pacers","18":"tag-pacers-hornets-score","19":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","20":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","21":"tag-pascal-siakam","22":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","23":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","24":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","25":"tag-product-40785-ap-indiana-sports-only","26":"tag-product-40804-ap-north-carolina-sports-only","27":"tag-quenton-jackson","28":"tag-sion-james","29":"tag-toronto"},"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\/696983","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=696983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}