{"id":535169,"date":"2026-03-12T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535169\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:52:07","slug":"hornets-117-109-kings-mar-11-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535169\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets 117-109 Kings (Mar 11, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 LaMelo Ball<\/a> scored 20 of his 30 points in the first half and the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> beat the Sacramento Kings<\/a> 117-109 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Miles Bridges<\/a> had 26 points as Charlotte won at Sacramento for the first time in more than two years. Standout rookie Kon Knueppel<\/a> added 24 points and Brandon Miller<\/a> scored 20.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan<\/a> scored 39 points for the Kings and moved past Hall of Famer Tim Duncan into 18th place on the NBA’s career scoring list with 26,505 points. Duncan, a 15-time All-Star, had 26,496 points in 19 seasons.<\/p>\n

Ball shot 10 of 22 and made six 3-pointers. He had six rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n

The Hornets trailed much of the first half but began taking control in the third quarter. Bridges’ alley-oop pass to Miller gave Charlotte an 88-83 lead, and White\u2019s three-point play early in the fourth made it 99-88.<\/p>\n

After the Kings got within 108-100 with three minutes remaining, Bridges made a floater. Ball then hit his sixth 3-pointer of the night and added a pair of free throws to help Charlotte close it out.<\/p>\n

Nique Clifford<\/a> had 18 points and seven assists for the Kings, who were attempting to win their third straight for the first time since early January.<\/p>\n

Precious Achiuwa<\/a> added 14 points and eight rebounds for Sacramento and Daeqwon Plowden<\/a> scored 13 points.<\/p>\n

The Kings played without Russell Westbrook<\/a> (quad bruise).<\/p>\n

Ball and Bridges combined for six 3-pointers and 31 points in the first half but Charlotte committed eight turnovers and trailed 62-57 at the break.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Hornets: At San Antonio on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Kings: Visit the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 LaMelo Ball scored 20 of his 30 points in the first half and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-535169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535169","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=535169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}