Toronto Raptors (22-15, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (13-23, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Charlotte Hornets host the Toronto Raptors in Eastern Conference play Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 11-16 against Eastern Conference opponents. Charlotte is eighth in the Eastern Conference with 26.4 assists per game led by LaMelo Ball averaging 7.9.<\/p>\n
The Raptors have gone 19-10 against Eastern Conference opponents. Toronto averages 114.5 points while outscoring opponents by 2.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are shooting 45.8% from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points lower than the 46.1% the Raptors allow to opponents. The Raptors are shooting 47.5% from the field, 1.0% lower than the 48.5% the Hornets’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the fourth time this season. The Hornets defeated the Raptors 111-86 in their last matchup on Dec. 6. Kon Knueppel led the Hornets with 21 points, and Immanuel Quickley led the Raptors with 31 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Miles Bridges is averaging 20.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Hornets. Brandon Miller is averaging 28.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Quickley is scoring 16.2 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Raptors. Brandon Ingram is averaging 19.0 points and 9.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 5-5, averaging 119.2 points, 45.5 rebounds, 28.5 assists, 7.1 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Raptors: 6-4, averaging 112.0 points, 46.1 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 8.1 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hornets: Mason Plumlee: out (groin), Grant Williams: out (acl), Ryan Kalkbrenner: out (elbow).<\/p>\n
Raptors: Jakob Poeltl: out (back).<\/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":"Toronto Raptors (22-15, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (13-23, 12th in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[166060,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-391637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-166060","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391637","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=391637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}