Philadelphia 76ers (24-20, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (18-28, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Tyrese Maxey and the Philadelphia 76ers take on Miles Bridges and the Charlotte Hornets in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 13-19 against Eastern Conference opponents. Charlotte has a 0-6 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The 76ers are 18-16 against Eastern Conference opponents. Philadelphia ranks ninth in the Eastern Conference shooting 35.4% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Hornets score 116.0 points per game, 0.5 more points than the 115.5 the 76ers allow. The 76ers average 12.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.5 fewer makes per game than the Hornets give up.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The 76ers won 125-121 in the last matchup on Oct. 25. Maxey led the 76ers with 28 points, and LaMelo Ball led the Hornets with 27 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Bridges is averaging 18.7 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists for the Hornets. Ball is averaging 18.3 points and 6.9 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Maxey is averaging 29.9 points, 6.8 assists and 2.1 steals for the 76ers. Joel Embiid is averaging 23.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 5-5, averaging 115.8 points, 48.5 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 6.3 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
76ers: 5-5, averaging 114.6 points, 41.7 rebounds, 24.0 assists, 11.0 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hornets: Mason Plumlee: out (groin), KJ Simpson: day to day (hip).<\/p>\n
76ers: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers (24-20, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (18-28, 12th in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[227734,4225,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-436284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-227734","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\/436284","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=436284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}