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Nets beat Hornets 114-104 as Michael Porter Jr. scores 26 and hits three threes in 79 seconds in the fourth quarter
Michael Porter Jr. scored 26 with 10 rebounds, Julius Randle had 22 and Mikel Brown Jr. added 18 as Brooklyn outscored Charlotte 34-24 in the fourth quarter to win 114-104.
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Michael Porter Jr. scored 26 points with 10 rebounds, Julius Randle added 22 and Mikel Brown Jr. had 18 off the bench as the Brooklyn Nets beat the Charlotte Hornets 114-104 at Barclays Center on Wednesday, November 4. Brooklyn outscored Charlotte 34-24 in the fourth quarter and pulled away behind three Porter threes in 79 seconds, improving to 2-6. Naz Reid scored 28 for the Hornets, who fell to 3-6.
A back-and-forth first half
The game had 12 lead changes. Brooklyn opened 4-0 on a Nolan Traore floater and a Randle layup, and led 13-10, before Charlotte went on a 12-2 run to lead 22-15 with 1:36 left in the first quarter. Brown, who made a driving 7-foot shot and a free throw before a 26-foot step-back three with 9.4 seconds left, cut it to 22-21, and Sion James’s 5-foot shot with 1.8 seconds left made it 24-21 Charlotte after one.
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Brown, in 20 minutes, finished 6 of 11 with 3 of 5 from three, 4 assists and 4 turnovers. Charlotte pulled ahead in the second quarter with a 13-3 run, going from a 44-44 tie to a 57-47 lead with 1:03 left. Reid scored on a turnaround and a floater, and Grayson Allen hit a running jumper and then back-to-back threes off Reid passes. Michael Porter Jr.’s 11-foot jumper and a Brown free throw cut it to 57-50 at halftime.
Brooklyn ties it in the third
Brooklyn trailed 59-50 early in the third, then scored 14 of the next 17 points to lead 64-62 with 5:48 left. Randle’s layup and free throw with 8:53 left gave him 17 points at the time, and Danny Wolf followed with a 24-foot three off a Randle pass. Charlotte kept it close with Reid and James, but Brown’s step-back three with 30.9 seconds left tied the game at 80-80 after three. Brooklyn outscored Charlotte 30-23 in the quarter.
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Porter’s three threes in 79 seconds
Randle opened the fourth with a 25-foot three off a Brown pass, and Reid answered with a three to tie it at 83. Wolf then hit a 25-foot running shot off a Mann pass and Brown a step-back three off a Randle pass for an 89-83 lead. Reid scored on a layup and Kalkbrenner dunked to make it 89-87, and then Porter hit three threes in 79 seconds, at 8:34, 7:37 and 7:15, all off Day’Ron Sharpe passes, to make it 99-91.
Reid kept Charlotte within 100-95 with 6:21 left, but Traore scored on a layup and a floater, Wolf added a layup and two free throws, and Sharpe hit a free throw as Brooklyn built a 109-97 lead with 3:12 left, then 112-100 on a Porter free throw with 2:00 left. Porter’s dunk off a Terance Mann pass with 27 seconds left made it 114-104.
The numbers
Brooklyn shot 40 of 79 (51%), made 14 of 37 threes and 20 of 28 free throws, and had 25 assists to 12 turnovers. The Nets won the paint 50-34 and the fast break 13-8, but were outrebounded 41-38. Charlotte shot 31 of 77 (40%), made 12 of 40 threes (30%) and 30 of 36 free throws, and had 20 assists and 17 turnovers.
Porter shot 8 of 17 and 4 of 9 from three and went 6 of 10 at the line. Randle shot 7 of 13 with 4 assists, and Traore had 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting with 3 steals in 27 minutes. Wolf scored 12 off the bench with 5 rebounds and 3 assists, and Sharpe had 8 assists, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks in 27 minutes.
Charlotte’s side
Reid shot 11 of 18 for 28 points with 9 rebounds in 36 minutes. Allen scored 22 on 6-of-11 shooting, with 5 of 7 from three and all five of his free throws, and had 4 assists. Brandon Miller scored 10 on 2-of-15 shooting, and Coby White scored 4 on 2-of-9 in 18 minutes. Tidjane Salaun hit three of four threes for 9 points, and James had 10 points.
What’s next
The Hornets host the Boston Celtics on Friday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. ET (2:00 a.m. Saturday Cairo time). The Nets visit the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. ET (2:30 a.m. Sunday Cairo time).
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