The Charlotte Hornets continued their late-season surge with a convincing 122\u2013108 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday.<\/p>\n
LaMelo Ball put on a shooting clinic, pouring in 35 points while knocking down seven three-pointers\u2014his league-leading eighth game this season with at least seven from deep. Miles Bridges added 25 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists in a well-rounded performance, and Coby White chipped in 17 as Charlotte secured its fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n
The Hornets shot an efficient 48.9% from the field and continued their red-hot stretch, improving to 9\u20132 since mid-March. With the win, Charlotte moved to within a half-game of sixth place in the Eastern Conference, putting itself in position to potentially avoid the play-in tournament entirely.<\/p>\n
Minnesota, meanwhile, continues to battle injuries and inconsistency. Julius Randle led the Timberwolves with 26 points, while Bones Hyland provided a spark off the bench with 18 points, six rebounds, and six assists.<\/p>\n
Playing without Anthony Edwards for the eighth time in 10 games and missing key defender Jaden McDaniels, the Timberwolves couldn\u2019t keep pace in the second half. They carried a 60\u201355 lead into halftime after Hyland beat the buzzer with a three, but Charlotte took control in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Behind Bridges and Ball, the Hornets outscored Minnesota in the period and built a double-digit lead they wouldn\u2019t relinquish, maintaining separation down the stretch to secure the win.<\/p>\n
With the loss, Minnesota has dropped four of its last five but remains in sixth place in the Western Conference with a slim cushion above the play-in line.<\/p>\n
Up next: the Hornets hit the road to face Boston, while the Timberwolves travel to Indiana as both teams continue their playoff pushes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets continued their late-season surge with a convincing 122\u2013108 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-701603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","11":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116358674634685802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701603","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=701603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}