{"id":571030,"date":"2026-04-08T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571030\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:37:08","slug":"celtics-113-102-hornets-apr-7-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571030\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics 113-102 Hornets (Apr 7, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3917376\/jaylen-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylen Brown<\/a> had 35 points and nine rebounds, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brad-stevens-celtics-playoffs-a8b63e4023dd927b7bafb64c8658d8d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> outlasted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cha\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> 113-102 on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>              Brown has scored 26 or more points in his last 10 games. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4065648\/jayson-tatum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> added 23 points and has had at least 20 in each of his last six games. Both played the entire fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>              With the win, the Celtics inched closer to locking up the No. 2 playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. It also gave Boston a 2-1 win in the season series with the Hornets, who could potentially be its first-round opponent. <\/p>\n<p>              The Hornets led by 11 in the first half but were outscored 35-26 in the third quarter as Boston took a 90-87 edge into the final period. The Celtics limited the Hornets to 15 points in the fourth, when they built a 13-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432816\/lamelo-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaMelo Ball<\/a> led the Hornets with 36 points, his second straight 30-point game. <\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433287\/brandon-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Miller<\/a> had 20 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066383\/miles-bridges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Bridges<\/a> added 13 points and 12 rebounds. Rookie of the Year candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061575\/kon-knueppel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel<\/a> struggled, shooting just 5 of 16 from the field and finishing with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>              The Hornets have two games remaining as they try to avoid appearing in the play-in tournament. <\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Hornets: Host the Pistons on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>              Celtics: Visit the Knicks on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON &#8212; \u2014 Jaylen Brown had 35 points and nine rebounds, and the Boston Celtics outlasted the Charlotte&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-571030","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\/571030","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=571030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}