Los Angeles Clippers (4-11, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (4-11, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Saturday, 1 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Charlotte aims to end its four-game losing streak when the Hornets play Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 3-4 in home games. Charlotte averages 15.6 turnovers per game and is 2-4 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents.<\/p>\n
The Clippers are 1-6 on the road. Los Angeles has a 2-8 record against teams over .500.<\/p>\n
The Hornets average 116.6 points per game, 0.5 fewer points than the 117.1 the Clippers allow. The Clippers’ 46.8% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.3 percentage points lower than the Hornets have allowed to their opponents (50.1%).<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kon Knueppel is shooting 47.3% and averaging 18.3 points for the Hornets. Miles Bridges is averaging 25.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
James Harden is scoring 26.5 points per game with 6.2 rebounds and 8.6 assists for the Clippers. Ivica Zubac is averaging 14.0 points and 19.0 rebounds while shooting 43.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 2-8, averaging 112.9 points, 46.1 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 6.8 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Clippers: 1-9, averaging 110.9 points, 40.9 rebounds, 23.1 assists, 7.9 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hornets: Tre Mann: day to day (ankle), Grant Williams: day to day (acl), Brandon Miller: out (shoulder), Josh Green: day to day (shoulder), Liam McNeeley: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Clippers: Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), Jordan Miller: day to day (hamstring), Derrick Jones Jr.: out (knee), Kawhi Leonard: day to day (ankle).<\/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":"Los Angeles Clippers (4-11, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (4-11, 12th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[187133,347,2733,1260,6326,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-394164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-187133","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115586582761433025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}