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\"Yahoo<\/a>Wed, April 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM UTC\"\"Subscribe to The Big Number<\/p>\n

On an action-packed episode of The Big Number, Tom Haberstroh and Dan Devine take a deep look into the Charlotte Hornets’ sensational second half of the season.<\/p>\n

Tom and Dan round out the show by taking a closer look at aging stars and their fight against Father Time.<\/p>\n

All that and more on this episode of The Big Number!<\/p>\n

1:15 Big Number: +10.8 -Charlotte Hornets\u2019 NetRating in 2nd half of season
18:30 ROTY race: Cooper Flagg vs. Kon Knueppel
30:03 Little number: 278 – amount of points Hornets\u2019 starting 5 outscored opponents 34:17 Little numbers: 127 – Hornets\u2019 offensive rating in minutes without LaMelo Ball on the floor and Coby White on the floor
40:03 Little numbers: 3 – Hornets\u2019 ranking among likely postseason teams in both average distance covered per game and average speed traveled per game
46:50 Steph Curry\u2019s return
52:13 LeBron, Curry, Kawhi & Kevin Durant continue dominance<\/p>\n

\"LaMelo<\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball #1 of the Charlotte Hornets high fives teammate during the game against the Indiana Pacers on April 3, 2026 at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

(Kent Smith)<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udda5\ufe0f Watch this full episode<\/a>on theYahoo Sports NBA YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj<\/a> or at yahoosports.tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, April 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM UTCSubscribe to The Big Number On an action-packed episode of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,963,225,1429,685,126,938,968,966,516,6,932,999],"class_list":{"0":"post-705828","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-coby-white","13":"tag-cooper-flagg","14":"tag-dan-devine","15":"tag-hornets","16":"tag-indiana-pacers","17":"tag-kevin-durant","18":"tag-kon-knueppel","19":"tag-lamelo-ball","20":"tag-lebron","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-steph-curry","23":"tag-tom-haberstroh"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116370943898295457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705828","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=705828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}