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Detroit Pistons<\/a> (58-22, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets<\/a> (43-37, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Charlotte, North Carolina; Friday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: LaMelo Ball and the Charlotte Hornets host Cade Cunningham<\/a> and the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

The Hornets are 25-25 in conference play. Charlotte is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 26.5 assists per game led by Ball averaging 7.1.<\/p>\n

The Pistons are 37-13 against Eastern Conference opponents. Detroit has a 10-6 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Hornets are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 1.7 percentage points higher than the 44.4% the Pistons allow to opponents. The Pistons average 11.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.9 fewer made shots on average than the 12.9 per game the Hornets allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Pistons won 110-104 in the last meeting on Feb. 10. Cunningham led the Pistons with 33 points, and Brandon Miller<\/a> led the Hornets with 24 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ball is averaging 20 points and 7.1 assists for the Hornets. Miller is averaging 18.9 points and 3.1 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ausar Thompson<\/a> is scoring 9.9 points per game and averaging 5.7 rebounds for the Pistons. Jalen Duren<\/a> is averaging 19.4 points and 9.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 7-3, averaging 118.2 points, 46.7 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 6.0 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pistons: 7-3, averaging 119.0 points, 43.1 rebounds, 32.1 assists, 9.5 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 50.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Hornets: Coby White: day to day (groin), PJ Hall: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n

Pistons: Kevin Huerter<\/a>: out (illness).<\/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":"Detroit Pistons (58-22, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (43-37, ninth in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[1026,7,970,909,473,296,188,3860,78812,912,4103,1407,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-706447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-ausar-thompson","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brandon-miller","11":"tag-cade-cunningham","12":"tag-charlotte-hornets","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-detroit-pistons","15":"tag-detroitpistons","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-jalen-duren","18":"tag-kevin-huerter","19":"tag-national-basketball-association","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116373566664908787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706447","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=706447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706447\/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=706447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}