{"id":573198,"date":"2026-03-30T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573198\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:23:08","slug":"celtics-114-99-hornets-30-mar-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573198\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics 114-99 Hornets (30 Mar, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — \u2014 Jayson Tatum<\/a> scored 32 points, Payton Pritchard<\/a> added 28 points and the Boston Celtics<\/a> defeated the cold-shooting Charlotte Hornets<\/a> 114-99 on Sunday night for their third straight victory.<\/p>\n

Neemias Queta<\/a> added 17 points and eight rebounds for the Celtics, who played their second consecutive game without Jaylen Brown<\/a> (Achilles tendinitis).<\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball<\/a> had 19 points and Miles Bridges<\/a> 14 for the Hornets, who entered the game leading the NBA in made 3-pointers (1,210) and third in 3-point percentage (38.2), but were just 12 of 43 from beyond the arc against the Eastern Conference’s second-place team.<\/p>\n

Ball, Brandon Miller<\/a> and Kon Knueppel<\/a> finished a combined 7 of 27 on 3-point shots.<\/p>\n

Pritchard, who continued to be a terrific replacement for Brown, was able to get to the basket at will, finishing 10 of 18 from the field and 6 of 6 from the foul line. Pritchard entered the game averaging 25.1 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 7.3 assists in the previous eight games Brown missed this season. <\/p>\n

Tatum was strong all night, shooting 12 of 23 from the field \u2014 including 5 of 10 from 3-point range \u2014 while adding eight assists.<\/p>\n

The Celtics raced to a 19-point lead, holding the Hornets to 5-of-21 shooting from beyond the arc in the first half.<\/p>\n

Charlotte had cut the lead to nine early in the fourth quarter before Tatum launched a 3 over Bridges from the top of the key and then stared into the crowd and pointed as the lead got back to 16.<\/p>\n

After a Pritchard layup pushed the lead to 17 with 3:52 left, Hornets coach Charles Lee had seen enough and emptied the bench.<\/p>\n

Charlotte ended its seven-game homestand with two straight losses after winning the first five to secure at least a spot in the play-in game.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Celtics: At Atlanta on Monday. <\/p>\n

Hornets: At Brooklyn on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. — \u2014 Jayson Tatum scored 32 points, Payton Pritchard added 28 points and the Boston Celtics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-573198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573198","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=573198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}