{"id":179369,"date":"2026-03-30T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179369\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:30:39","slug":"charlotte-takes-on-brooklyn-for-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179369\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte takes on Brooklyn for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Hornets (39-36, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (18-57, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

New York; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Conference foes Brooklyn and Charlotte square off on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Nets have gone 12-32 against Eastern Conference teams. Brooklyn is 2-4 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Hornets are 23-24 in conference games. Charlotte ranks eighth in the NBA with 33.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Moussa Diabate averaging 5.0.<\/p>\n

The Nets average 106.3 points per game, 5.4 fewer points than the 111.7 the Hornets give up. The Hornets average 16.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.9 more made shots on average than the 12.4 per game the Nets allow.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. The Nets won 116-103 in the last matchup on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Danny Wolf is scoring 8.9 points per game and averaging 4.9 rebounds for the Nets. Josh Minott is averaging 11.0 points and 2.4 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball is scoring 19.7 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Hornets. Brandon Miller is averaging 3.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

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\"Atlanta<\/p>\n

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LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 1-9, averaging 101.5 points, 36.9 rebounds, 23.3 assists, 9.8 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Hornets: 7-3, averaging 117.3 points, 46.0 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nets: Jalen Wilson: day to day (illness), Danny Wolf: day to day (ankle), Egor Demin: out for season (foot), Josh Minott: day to day (hip), Day\u2019Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter Jr.: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Hornets: Grant Williams: day to day (knee), Tidjane Salaun: day to day (calf).<\/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":"Charlotte Hornets (39-36, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (18-57, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[12188,72486,98,100,355,99,6425,7937,52214,20470,72487,23659,25470,29599,4600,72485,21,4583,32562,1066,9,24,1064,63,319],"class_list":["post-179369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-brandon-miller","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-danny-wolf","tag-data-skrive","tag-dayron-sharpe","tag-grant-williams","tag-jalen-wilson","tag-josh-minott","tag-lamelo-ball","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-moussa-diabate","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nc-state-wire","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-north-carolina","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}