{"id":506218,"date":"2026-02-28T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506218\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:38:10","slug":"brandon-miller-scores-26-points-as-charlotte-hornets-beat-portland-trail-blazers-for-fourth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506218\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Miller scores 26 points as Charlotte Hornets beat Portland Trail Blazers for fourth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Brandon Miller<\/a> had 26 points and eight rebounds, and the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> beat the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> 109-93 on Saturday for their fourth consecutive victory.<\/p>\n

Miller made six 3-pointers and the Hornets finished 16 for 42 behind the arc after totaling 72 in the previous three victories, equaling the NBA record for most in a three-game span.<\/p>\n

Coby White<\/a> added 20 points off the bench and LaMelo Ball<\/a> had 15 points and eight assists. Moussa Diabate<\/a> finished with 13 points, 11 rebounds and five assists as Charlotte pulled within a game of .500 at 30-31.<\/p>\n

Jrue Holiday<\/a> scored 25 points and Jerami Grant<\/a> had 21 for the Trail Blazers, who played without All-Star Deni Avdija<\/a> for a third straight game because of a back injury.<\/p>\n

Portland missed all 10 3-point attempts in the first quarter and Charlotte took a 29-17 lead. Miller made four 3-pointers and scored 12 points in the second as the Hornets took a 51-43 lead to the half.<\/p>\n

The Blazers cut it to 74-67 after three but went cold again in the fourth, missing 10 of their 12 3-point attempts. Portland finished 11 for 47 (23.4%) on 3s for the game. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: Visit Atlanta on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Hornets: Host Dallas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Brandon Miller had 26 points and eight rebounds, and the Charlotte Hornets beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-506218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506218","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=506218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}