Charlotte Hornets (9-19, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (15-14, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Cleveland comes into the matchup with Charlotte as losers of three in a row.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers have gone 12-11 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 32.2 defensive rebounds per game led by Evan Mobley averaging 6.7.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 8-13 in Eastern Conference play. Charlotte is 8-12 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are shooting 45.7% from the field this season, 3.3 percentage points lower than the 49.0% the Hornets allow to opponents. The Hornets average 14.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 more made shot on average than the 13.3 per game the Cavaliers give up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Hornets won 119-111 in overtime in the last matchup on Dec. 14.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Donovan Mitchell is averaging 30.7 points and 5.5 assists for the Cavaliers. Darius Garland is averaging 35 points and eight assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Miles Bridges is scoring 21.1 points per game and averaging 6.0 rebounds for the Hornets. Kon Knueppel is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cavaliers: 3-7, averaging 118.4 points, 47.3 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 8.6 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hornets: 5-5, averaging 112.9 points, 43.0 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 8.3 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Cavaliers: Donovan Mitchell: day to day (illness), Sam Merrill: day to day (hand), Max Strus: out (foot), Evan Mobley: out (calf), Larry Nance Jr.: out (calf), Craig Porter Jr.: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Hornets: Grant Williams: out (acl), Collin Sexton: out (quadriceps).<\/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 (9-19, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (15-14, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[178411,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-361712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-178411","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}