Charlotte and Washington will play in a matchup of Eastern Conference foes. Tuesday’s game is the second meeting of the season between the two teams. The Hornets…<\/p>\n
Washington Wizards (5-22, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (9-20, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Hornets -5.5; over\/under is 235<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Miles Bridges and the Charlotte Hornets host CJ McCollum and the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n The Hornets are 2-4 in division games. Charlotte averages 15.3 turnovers per game and is 4-5 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n The Wizards are 3-16 against Eastern Conference opponents. Washington is seventh in the Eastern Conference with 32.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Alex Sarr averaging 5.9.<\/p>\n The Hornets are shooting 45.5% from the field this season, 2.2 percentage points lower than the 47.7% the Wizards allow to opponents. The Wizards average 13.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 fewer makes per game than the Hornets allow.<\/p>\n The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Hornets defeated the Wizards 139-113 in their last matchup on Oct. 26. LaMelo Ball led the Hornets with 38 points, and McCollum led the Wizards with 24 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bridges is averaging 20.9 points, six rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Hornets. Ball is averaging 6.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Kyshawn George is scoring 15.2 points per game and averaging 5.8 rebounds for the Wizards. Carlton Carrington is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 4-6, averaging 113.8 points, 42.8 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Wizards: 3-7, averaging 110.5 points, 44.7 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 6.2 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.7 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Hornets: Mason Plumlee: day to day (groin), Grant Williams: out (acl), Ryan Kalkbrenner: day to day (elbow), Collin Sexton: day to day (quadriceps).<\/p>\n Wizards: Marvin Bagley III: day to day (calf), Bilal Coulibaly: day to day (ankle), Cam Whitmore: out (shoulder).<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte and Washington will play in a matchup of Eastern Conference foes. Tuesday’s game is the second meeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-365225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365225","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=365225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}