Miami Heat (34-29, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (32-31, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Friday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Hornets -6.5; over\/under is 230.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Charlotte heads into a matchup with Miami as winners of six games in a row.<\/p>\n The Hornets are 9-4 against Southeast Division opponents. Charlotte scores 116.1 points while outscoring opponents by 3.8 points per game.<\/p>\n The Heat are 18-18 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami ranks seventh in the Eastern Conference shooting 36.1% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n The Hornets are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 45.6% the Heat allow to opponents. The Heat score 7.7 more points per game (120.0) than the Hornets allow their opponents to score (112.3).<\/p>\n The two teams square off for the third time this season. The Heat defeated the Hornets 126-108 in their last matchup on Nov. 8. Norman Powell led the Heat with 25 points, and Kon Knueppel led the Hornets with 30 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: LaMelo Ball is shooting 39.9% and averaging 19.2 points for the Hornets. Brandon Miller is averaging 22.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bam Adebayo is scoring 18.7 points per game with 9.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Heat. Andrew Wiggins is averaging 14.5 points and 5.6 rebounds while shooting 49.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 7-3, averaging 116.5 points, 47.2 rebounds, 26.9 assists, 9.0 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 103.2 points per game.<\/p>\n Heat: 7-3, averaging 122.9 points, 50.8 rebounds, 28.6 assists, 9.3 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.9 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Hornets: Grant Williams: day to day (knee), Tidjane Salaun: out (knee).<\/p>\n Heat: Nikola Jovic: day to day (back), Norman Powell: out (groin), Simone Fontecchio: day to day (groin).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat (34-29, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (32-31, ninth in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85316,1111,123,125,124,14596,110],"class_list":["post-180490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-85316","tag-article","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}