{"id":543480,"date":"2026-03-25T02:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543480\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:22:07","slug":"hornets-134-90-kings-mar-24-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543480\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets 134-90 Kings (Mar 24, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — \u2014 Coby White<\/a> made six of Charlotte\u2019s franchise-tying 26 3-pointers and finished with 27 points as the Hornets routed the Sacramento Kings<\/a> 134-90 on Tuesday night for their fourth straight win.<\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball<\/a> had 20 points on six 3s and Moussa Diabate<\/a> added 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Hornets (38-34), who pulled within two games of the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> for sixth place in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Daeqwon Plowden<\/a> had 22 points and ex-Hornet Malik Monk<\/a> had a career-high 14 assists for the Kings (19-54).<\/p>\n

Kon Knueppel<\/a> added four 3s for the Hornets as the rookie from Duke moved into second place in franchise history for 3s made in a season with 247. He needs 14 to pass Kemba Walker, now a player enhancement coach with the Hornets.<\/p>\n

The 26 3-pointers matched the franchise record set on March 14, 2025, at San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Charlotte raced to a 72-47 lead at halftime, shooting 13 of 29 from beyond the arc with Ball and White leading the way with four each at the midway point.<\/p>\n

Charlotte pushed its lead to 46 early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Ball, who has been on a heater of late, set the tone early by showing off his full bag of tricks \u2014 shooting 3s off one foot, throwing no-look dimes and outleaping opponents for rebounds, seemingly toying with the Kings at times.<\/p>\n

The Hornets had a chance to break the franchise record for 3s in a game in the final 3 but rookie center Ryan Kalbrenner \u2014 who rarely shoots from deep \u2014 badly missed from the corner.<\/p>\n

The Kings offered little in the way of defensive resistance as the Hornets shot 51% and held a 57-35 edge on the glass.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Kings: At Orlando on Thursday night. <\/p>\n

Hornets: Host New York Knicks<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. — \u2014 Coby White made six of Charlotte\u2019s franchise-tying 26 3-pointers and finished with 27 points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-543480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543480","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=543480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}