Toronto Raptors (14-5, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (5-14, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
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BOTTOM LINE: Toronto aims to keep its nine-game win streak intact when the Raptors take on Charlotte.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 4-9 in conference games. Charlotte is 4-9 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 13-2 in conference play. Toronto ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference shooting 37.0% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Hornets average 14.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 11.9 per game the Raptors allow. The Raptors are shooting 49.6% from the field, 0.7% lower than the 50.3% the Hornets\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Raptors won the last matchup 110-108 on Nov. 18. Brandon Ingram scored 27 points to help lead the Raptors to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kon Knueppel is shooting 46.9% and averaging 18.3 points for the Hornets. Brandon Miller is averaging 27.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Immanuel Quickley is scoring 15.5 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Raptors. Ingram is averaging 26.0 points and 8.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 2-8, averaging 112.8 points, 42.6 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Raptors: 9-1, averaging 119.1 points, 43.0 rebounds, 29.6 assists, 9.3 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hornets: Grant Williams: day to day (acl), Pat Connaughton: day to day (calf), Josh Green: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n
Raptors: RJ Barrett: out (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors (14-5, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (5-14, 12th in the Eastern Conference) Watch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-314816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}