Charlotte Hornets (43-38, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York Knicks (53-28, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Hornets -8.5; over\/under is 215.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: New York will try to keep its seven-game home win streak intact when the Knicks face Charlotte.<\/p>\n The Knicks have gone 35-16 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York ranks third in the Eastern Conference at limiting opponent scoring, allowing just 110.1 points while holding opponents to 46.0% shooting.<\/p>\n The Hornets have gone 25-26 against Eastern Conference opponents. Charlotte is eighth in the NBA with 33.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Moussa Diabate averaging 5.0.<\/p>\n The Knicks average 14.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 more made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Hornets give up. The Hornets average 16.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.5 more made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Knicks give up.<\/p>\n The two teams match up for the fourth time this season. The Hornets defeated the Knicks 114-103 in their last meeting on March 26. Kon Knueppel led the Hornets with 26 points, and Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 26 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Brunson is averaging 26 points and 6.8 assists for the Knicks. Karl-Anthony Towns is averaging 17.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LaMelo Ball is averaging 20.1 points and 7.2 assists for the Hornets. Brandon Miller is averaging 18.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Knicks: 7-3, averaging 116.1 points, 41.2 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 7.8 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 51.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Hornets: 6-4, averaging 115.8 points, 45.9 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.5 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Knicks: Tyler Kolek: out (oblique), OG Anunoby: day to day (ankle), Miles McBride: out (injury management), Mitchell Robinson: out (ankle).<\/p>\n Hornets: PJ Hall: out (ankle).<\/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":"Charlotte Hornets (43-38, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York Knicks (53-28, third in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77220,597,12188,4583,9,11,10,319],"class_list":["post-193161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-77220","tag-article","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193161","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=193161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}