{"id":179393,"date":"2026-03-30T07:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:55:34","slug":"charlotte-takes-on-brooklyn-for-conference-showdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179393\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte takes on Brooklyn for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Hornets<\/a> (39-36, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (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<\/a> with 33.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Moussa Diabate<\/a> 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<\/a> is scoring 8.9 points per game and averaging 4.9 rebounds for the Nets. Josh Minott<\/a> 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<\/a> is averaging 3.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

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

Hornets: Grant Williams: day to day (knee), Tidjane Salaun: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[72486,98,100,355,99,6425,7937,5235,54398,23659,25470,4600,72485,4568,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-179393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brandon-miller","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-danny-wolf","tag-egor-demin","tag-event_preview","tag-jalen-wilson","tag-josh-minott","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-moussa-diabate","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179393","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=179393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}