{"id":391861,"date":"2026-11-03T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391861\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:10:08","slug":"charlotte-takes-on-brooklyn-aims-to-halt-4-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391861\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte takes on Brooklyn, aims to halt 4-game slide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/charlotte-hornets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> (3-5, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (1-6, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">New York; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LINE: Hornets -2.5; over\/under is 214.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Charlotte is looking to stop its four-game slide with a victory over Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Brooklyn finished 20-62 overall, 14-37 in Eastern Conference play and 12-29 at home during the 2025-26 season. The Nets averaged 105.9 points per game while shooting 44.3% from the field and 34.1% from 3-point distance last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Charlotte finished 44-38 overall and 26-26 in Eastern Conference play during the 2025-26 season. The Hornets averaged 116.0 points per game while allowing opponents to score 111.2 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The teams meet for the second time this season. The Hornets won 110-103 in the last matchup on Oct. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Nets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/egor-demin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Egor Demin<\/a>: out (leg).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Hornets: Grant Williams: out (hamstring), Kon Knueppel: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Charlotte Hornets (3-5, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (1-6, 15th in the Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,6425,5235,54398,4568,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-391861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-egor-demin","tag-event_preview","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\/391861","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=391861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}