Apr 7, 2021 - Charlotte Hornets at Oklahoma City Thunder

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4/7/2021 Oklahoma City v. Charlotte Game Preview

	Charlotte Hornets	(26-24, 13-15 away)
	Oklahoma City Thunder	(20-31, 9-17 home)

April 7, 2021 at 8:00 PM ET
Regular Season

Chesapeake Energy Arena
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Season Series - Tied 1-1

Date	Away Team	Home Team	Score	Winner	Game Type	Venue
Dec 26, 2020	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	109 - 107	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Apr 7, 2021	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	113 - 102	Charlotte	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena

2020-2021 Team Stats

	GP	MPG	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TOV	PF	ORB	DRB	TRB	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Charlotte	52	48.2	40.2	87.7	.458	13.9	36.8	.379	16.5	21.3	.776	15.4	18.0	10.4	33.6	44.0	26.9	8.0	4.8	110.9
Oklahoma City	53	48.3	38.8	87.1	.446	12.6	36.2	.348	15.2	20.7	.733	15.5	17.8	8.8	36.1	44.9	22.5	6.8	4.6	105.4
CHA Opponents	52	48.2	41.3	88.5	.467	14.8	40.5	.366	14.2	19.2	.742	15.1	18.7	10.5	34.4	44.9	27.6	8.2	4.8	111.7
OKC Opponents	53	48.3	43.1	91.8	.469	13.0	36.7	.354	14.7	19.2	.766	12.9	18.2	10.1	37.1	47.2	25.1	8.7	4.9	113.9

Head to Head Since 1946-1947

Date	Away Team	Home Team	Score	Winner	Game Type	Venue
Dec 26, 2020	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	109 - 107	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Dec 27, 2019	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	104 - 102	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Nov 23, 2018	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	104 - 109	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Nov 1, 2018	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	111 - 107	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Jan 13, 2018	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	101 - 91	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Dec 11, 2017	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	116 - 103	Charlotte	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Apr 2, 2017	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	113 - 101	Charlotte	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Jan 4, 2017	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	112 - 123	Charlotte	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Jan 20, 2016	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	95 - 109	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Jan 2, 2016	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	109 - 90	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Feb 21, 2015	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	110 - 103	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Dec 26, 2014	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	75 - 98	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Mar 2, 2014	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	99 - 116	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Dec 27, 2013	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	89 - 85	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Mar 8, 2013	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	116 - 94	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Nov 26, 2012	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	69 - 114	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Mar 10, 2012	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	95 - 122	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Mar 18, 2011	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	82 - 99	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Dec 21, 2010	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	99 - 81	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Mar 17, 2010	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	92 - 100	Charlotte	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Dec 26, 2009	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	91 - 98	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Apr 10, 2009	Charlotte	Oklahoma City	81 - 84	Oklahoma City	Regular Season	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Dec 3, 2008	Oklahoma City	Charlotte	97 - 103	Charlotte	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Mar 28, 2008	Charlotte	Seattle	96 - 93	Charlotte	Regular Season	KeyArena
Nov 17, 2007	Seattle	Charlotte	84 - 100	Charlotte	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Mar 4, 2007	Charlotte	Seattle	89 - 96	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Nov 10, 2006	Seattle	Charlotte	99 - 85	Seattle	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Feb 6, 2006	Seattle	Charlotte	106 - 119	Charlotte	Regular Season	Spectrum Center
Nov 30, 2005	Charlotte	Seattle	94 - 104	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Feb 5, 2005	Charlotte	Seattle	99 - 113	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Dec 31, 2004	Seattle	Charlotte	103 - 97	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Mar 7, 2002	Charlotte	Seattle	89 - 92	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Jan 23, 2002	Seattle	Charlotte	101 - 111	Charlotte	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Dec 30, 2000	Charlotte	Seattle	102 - 104	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Nov 9, 2000	Seattle	Charlotte	102 - 94	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Feb 28, 2000	Seattle	Charlotte	84 - 81	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Dec 5, 1999	Charlotte	Seattle	103 - 81	Charlotte	Regular Season	KeyArena
Mar 6, 1998	Seattle	Charlotte	98 - 104	Charlotte	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Jan 6, 1998	Charlotte	Seattle	81 - 102	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Dec 7, 1996	Charlotte	Seattle	94 - 92	Charlotte	Regular Season	KeyArena
Nov 26, 1996	Seattle	Charlotte	89 - 97	Charlotte	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Mar 27, 1996	Charlotte	Seattle	95 - 132	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Nov 17, 1995	Seattle	Charlotte	98 - 96	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Mar 9, 1995	Seattle	Charlotte	99 - 112	Charlotte	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Feb 27, 1995	Charlotte	Seattle	116 - 114	Charlotte	Regular Season	Tacoma Dome
Mar 20, 1994	Seattle	Charlotte	124 - 115	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Mar 1, 1994	Charlotte	Seattle	96 - 112	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Mar 4, 1993	Charlotte	Seattle	112 - 138	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Feb 1, 1993	Seattle	Charlotte	100 - 112	Charlotte	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Jan 31, 1992	Seattle	Charlotte	122 - 105	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Jan 14, 1992	Charlotte	Seattle	117 - 116	Charlotte	Regular Season	KeyArena
Mar 1, 1991	Charlotte	Seattle	105 - 122	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Feb 4, 1991	Seattle	Charlotte	100 - 93	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Mar 14, 1990	Charlotte	Seattle	100 - 103	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Feb 18, 1990	Seattle	Charlotte	85 - 70	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Feb 5, 1990	Seattle	Charlotte	101 - 100	Seattle	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum
Nov 7, 1989	Charlotte	Seattle	88 - 128	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Mar 16, 1989	Charlotte	Seattle	88 - 108	Seattle	Regular Season	KeyArena
Feb 3, 1989	Seattle	Charlotte	106 - 108	Charlotte	Regular Season	Charlotte Coliseum

2020-2021 Charlotte Hornets Depth Chart

	PG	SG	SF	PF	C
Starters	T. Rozier	D. Graham	G. Hayward	P. Washington	B. Biyombo
Rotation	L. Ball	M. Monk	C. Martin	M. Bridges	C. Zeller
Rotation	B. Wanamaker		C. Martin	J. McDaniels
Lim PT		G. Riller		V. Carey, Jr.	N. Richards
Lim PT		N. Darling

2020-2021 Oklahoma City Thunder Depth Chart

	PG	SG	SF	PF	C
Starters	T. Maledon	S. Gilgeous-Alexander	L. Dort	D. Bazley	A. Horford
Rotation	T. Jerome	S. Mykhailiuk	K. Williams	J. Hoard	T. Bradley
Rotation	J. Robinson			A. Pokusevski	M. Brown
Rotation				I. Roby	M. Muscala
Rotation				J. Hall
Lim PT			G. Deck

Charlotte Hornets Player Stats

#	Player	Pos	GP	MPG	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TOV	PF	ORB	DRB	TRB	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2	LaMelo Ball	G	41	28.6	5.8	12.8	.451	2.0	5.3	.375	2.4	3.0	.789	2.8	2.8	1.3	4.5	5.9	6.1	1.6	0.3	15.9
8	Bismack Biyombo	PF	48	21.0	2.2	3.9	.578	0.0	0.0	.000	0.8	1.7	.481	1.0	2.3	2.0	3.1	5.1	1.3	0.3	1.1	5.3
0	Miles Bridges	SF	52	27.4	4.0	7.8	.505	1.4	3.6	.386	1.3	1.5	.883	1.6	2.1	1.3	4.5	5.8	2.0	0.7	0.7	10.6
22	Vernon Carey, Jr.	PF	10	3.3	0.3	0.8	.375	0.0	0.4	.000	0.2	0.3	.667	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.8	1.0	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.8
30	Nate Darling	SG	5	3.6	0.4	1.4	.286	0.4	1.4	.286	0.0	0.0	.000	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	1.2
4	Devonte' Graham	PG	42	29.6	4.4	11.7	.378	3.1	8.1	.379	2.2	2.6	.827	1.5	1.3	0.4	2.3	2.7	5.1	1.0	0.1	14.0
20	Gordon Hayward	GF	44	34.0	7.1	15.0	.473	1.9	4.7	.415	3.5	4.2	.843	2.1	1.7	0.8	5.0	5.9	4.1	1.2	0.3	19.6
10	Caleb Martin	F	38	13.6	1.7	4.5	.378	0.6	2.1	.269	0.6	1.0	.615	0.7	1.0	0.6	1.9	2.5	1.2	0.7	0.2	4.6
11	Cody Martin	F	40	14.1	1.5	3.4	.444	0.3	1.1	.279	0.5	0.8	.600	0.6	0.8	0.8	1.7	2.5	1.4	0.6	0.2	3.8
6	Jalen McDaniels	PF	27	12.9	2.1	4.3	.496	0.5	1.5	.341	0.7	1.0	.704	0.7	1.7	0.5	1.8	2.3	0.8	0.3	0.3	5.5
1	Malik Monk	SG	32	21.7	4.6	10.1	.460	2.2	5.2	.424	1.7	2.0	.815	1.5	1.2	0.4	2.3	2.7	1.9	0.5	0.1	13.1
14	Nick Richards	C	14	3.8	0.3	0.5	.571	0.0	0.0	.000	0.5	0.8	.636	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.0	1.1
7	Grant Riller	SG	2	3.9	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.0	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
3	Terry Rozier	G	50	33.6	7.2	15.6	.463	3.3	8.2	.404	2.5	3.0	.832	1.9	1.8	0.6	3.5	4.1	3.4	1.2	0.4	20.3
9	Brad Wanamaker	SG	7	19.8	3.1	6.4	.489	0.4	1.9	.231	1.9	2.0	.929	1.9	2.0	0.4	1.4	1.9	4.0	0.9	0.1	8.6
25	P.J. Washington	PF	48	29.4	4.1	9.7	.426	1.4	3.8	.370	1.9	2.4	.791	2.1	2.7	1.4	5.0	6.4	2.7	1.0	1.3	11.6
40	Cody Zeller	F	33	21.5	3.7	7.0	.530	0.1	0.7	.130	1.7	2.4	.731	1.0	2.3	2.7	4.6	7.4	2.1	0.7	0.4	9.2

Oklahoma City Thunder Player Stats

#	Player	Pos	GP	MPG	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TOV	PF	ORB	DRB	TRB	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
7	Darius Bazley	PF	37	30.8	4.5	11.2	.398	1.5	5.1	.300	1.5	2.2	.704	1.9	0.9	0.6	6.9	7.5	1.6	0.5	0.6	12.0
13	Tony Bradley	C	8	21.1	4.1	6.5	.635	0.0	0.2	.000	1.5	2.1	.706	1.6	2.1	2.2	5.2	7.5	1.2	0.4	1.1	9.8
4	Moses Brown	C	24	20.4	3.2	5.8	.557	0.0	0.0	.000	2.0	3.4	.598	0.8	1.9	3.2	5.2	8.3	0.2	0.5	1.1	8.5
5	Luguentz Dort	PG	42	29.3	4.4	11.2	.389	2.0	5.9	.329	2.0	2.6	.752	1.5	2.5	0.6	2.8	3.5	1.5	0.9	0.4	12.6
2	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander	PG	35	33.7	8.2	16.1	.508	2.0	4.9	.418	5.3	6.5	.808	3.0	2.0	0.5	4.2	4.7	5.9	0.8	0.7	23.7
15	Josh Hall	F	12	12.3	0.8	3.2	.231	0.2	1.4	.118	1.2	2.2	.556	1.2	1.5	0.1	1.8	1.9	1.4	0.0	0.0	2.9
8	Jaylen Hoard	PF	4	23.9	3.8	7.8	.484	0.0	1.0	.000	3.2	3.8	.867	1.8	1.0	1.5	1.8	3.2	1.0	0.5	0.2	10.8
42	Al Horford	FC	28	27.9	5.8	12.9	.450	2.0	5.4	.368	0.6	0.8	.818	1.0	1.7	1.0	5.7	6.7	3.4	0.9	0.9	14.2
10	Ty Jerome	PG	20	25.5	3.6	8.4	.435	2.0	5.0	.400	0.5	0.8	.588	1.2	1.9	0.5	2.5	3.0	3.6	0.6	0.2	9.8
11	Theo Maledon	PG	47	27.4	3.4	9.0	.376	1.7	4.7	.360	1.3	1.7	.756	2.1	2.1	0.4	3.1	3.4	3.4	0.9	0.1	9.8
12	Darius Miller	GF	18	10.9	1.2	2.7	.458	0.9	2.3	.405	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.4	0.7	0.1	1.2	1.3	1.2	0.7	0.3	4.1
33	Mike Muscala	FC	35	18.4	3.4	7.6	.446	1.9	5.3	.370	0.9	1.0	.917	0.6	1.5	0.5	3.2	3.8	0.8	0.2	0.3	9.7
14	Svi Mykhailiuk	SF	13	23.7	3.8	8.5	.455	1.6	4.5	.356	0.7	0.8	.818	1.6	0.6	0.5	2.5	3.0	1.6	1.0	0.2	10.0
17	Aleksej Pokusevski	C	33	23.5	2.8	8.5	.333	1.3	4.5	.289	0.7	0.8	.846	1.9	1.2	0.7	4.1	4.8	1.9	0.4	1.0	7.6
3	Justin Robinson	PG	4	14.9	1.2	3.8	.333	0.8	2.8	.273	0.8	1.2	.600	0.2	1.5	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.5	0.2	0.0	4.0
9	Isaiah Roby	SF	43	23.4	3.4	6.8	.502	0.5	1.6	.314	1.5	2.2	.710	1.8	2.6	1.6	4.1	5.7	1.8	0.8	0.7	8.9
34	Kenrich Williams	SF	53	20.7	3.1	5.8	.541	0.7	1.6	.437	0.5	0.9	.565	1.0	2.0	1.3	2.9	4.2	2.2	0.7	0.2	7.5

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