{"id":584025,"date":"2026-04-04T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:39:07","slug":"hornets-129-108-pacers-apr-3-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584025\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets 129-108 Pacers (Apr 3, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433287\/brandon-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Miller<\/a> scored 22 points, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061575\/kon-knueppel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel<\/a> added 20 and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cha\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> 129-108 on Friday night for their eighth victory in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066383\/miles-bridges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Bridges<\/a> scored 19 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432816\/lamelo-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaMelo Ball<\/a> had 18 points and nine assists to help the Hornets improve to 42-26. Charlotte was 24 of 49 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3149673\/pascal-siakam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Siakam<\/a> led Indiana with 30 points. The Pacers (18-59) had won two in a row.<\/p>\n<p>              The Hornets entered the night in eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings \u2014 1 1\/2 games behind Philadelphia and Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>              They left no doubt about this one.<\/p>\n<p>              Behind a flurry of early 3-pointers \u2014 including three in the first quarter from reserve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4602025\/sion-james\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sion James<\/a> \u2014 the Hornets raced to a 31-11 lead. Charlotte shot 14 of 27 from 3-point range in the first half to take a 69-50 lead.<\/p>\n<p>              Knueppel, who set the franchise record for 3s in a season Thursday night against Phoenix, finished 3 of 7 from beyond the arc and also showed versatility in his game with a coast-to-coast layup.<\/p>\n<p>              Ball had five 3s while Miller and James finished with four each. James had 13 points, two shy of his career high.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4592829\/quenton-jackson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quenton Jackson<\/a> added 16 points for Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>              Up Next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Pacers: At Cleveland on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Hornets: At Minnesota on Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; \u2014 Brandon Miller scored 22 points, Kon Knueppel added 20 and the Charlotte Hornets beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-584025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584025","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=584025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}