Oklahoma City Thunder (12-1, first in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (4-8, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Thunder -14.5; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will attempt to build upon its four-game win streak with a victory against Charlotte.<\/p>\n The Hornets are 3-3 on their home court. Charlotte is seventh in the league averaging 14.8 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 37.1% from deep. Miles Bridges leads the team averaging 3.3 makes while shooting 36.7% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n The Thunder are 6-1 on the road. Oklahoma City is the Western Conference leader with 37.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Isaiah Hartenstein averaging 7.8.<\/p>\n The 118.9 points per game the Hornets average are 11.9 more points than the Thunder allow (107.0). The Thunder’s 47.6% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.1 percentage points lower than the Hornets have given up to their opponents (49.7%).<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: LaMelo Ball is scoring 22.3 points per game and averaging 7.1 rebounds for the Hornets. Kon Knueppel is averaging 32.0 points and 3.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 32.5 points, 5.2 rebounds and 6.6 assists for the Thunder. Isaiah Joe is averaging 21.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 3-7, averaging 117.0 points, 45.7 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 7.0 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Thunder: 9-1, averaging 121.0 points, 46.3 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 11.0 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 103.2 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Hornets: Grant Williams: day to day (acl), Brandon Miller: out (shoulder), Ryan Kalkbrenner: day to day (personal), Josh Green: day to day (shoulder), Liam McNeeley: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n Thunder: Aaron Wiggins: out (thigh), Luguentz Dort: day to day (shoulder), Nikola Topic: out (groin), Jalen Williams: out (wrist), Kenrich Williams: out (knee), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (12-1, first in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (4-8, 12th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[165210,4225,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-286212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-165210","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}