{"id":700981,"date":"2026-04-06T06:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:46:16","slug":"hornets-face-the-celtics-look-for-5th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700981\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets face the Celtics, look for 5th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Hornets<\/a> (43-36, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics<\/a> (53-25, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Boston; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Celtics -6.5; over\/under is 220.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Charlotte will look to keep its four-game win streak alive when the Hornets take on Boston.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are 34-15 against Eastern Conference opponents. Boston ranks third in the league averaging 15.2 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 36.4% from deep. Derrick White<\/a> leads the team averaging 2.7 makes while shooting 32.6% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The Hornets are 25-24 in conference matchups. Charlotte ranks fifth in the NBA<\/a> with 46.2 rebounds per game. Moussa Diabate<\/a> paces the Hornets with 8.8.<\/p>\n

The Celtics score 114.6 points per game, 3.3 more points than the 111.3 the Hornets give up. The Hornets average 16.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 14.1 per game the Celtics allow.<\/p>\n

The two teams square off for the third time this season. The Celtics defeated the Hornets 114-99 in their last meeting on March 29. Jayson Tatum<\/a> led the Celtics with 32 points, and LaMelo Ball<\/a> led the Hornets with 19 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Payton Pritchard<\/a> is scoring 17.0 points per game and averaging 4.0 rebounds for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown<\/a> is averaging 24.6 points and 4.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ball is averaging 19.8 points and 7.2 assists for the Hornets. Brandon Miller<\/a> is averaging 19.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 116.8 points, 48.1 rebounds, 24.2 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Hornets: 8-2, averaging 121.0 points, 46.8 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Celtics: None listed.<\/p>\n

Hornets: PJ Hall: out (ankle).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets (43-36, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (53-25, second in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,75,970,684,473,3878,1243,78812,685,78,77,966,6357,1407,6,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-700981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-brandon-miller","11":"tag-charlotte","12":"tag-charlotte-hornets","13":"tag-charlottehornets","14":"tag-derrick-white","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-hornets","17":"tag-jaylen-brown","18":"tag-jayson-tatum","19":"tag-lamelo-ball","20":"tag-moussa-diabate","21":"tag-national-basketball-association","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-payton-pritchard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116356421435673076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700981","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=700981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}