Miles Bridges totaled 26 points and 14 rebounds and Grant Williams scored 24 off the bench to help the streaking Charlotte Hornets beat the Utah Jazz 115-107 on Thursday night in Salt Lake City.
The Hornets hit 20 3-pointers and used a 14-0 fourth-quarter run en route to their fourth consecutive win. It was Charlotte’s sixth road win all season.
The Jazz squandered a seven-point lead in the fourth while going scoreless for 5-1/2 minutes, leading to their fifth consecutive loss.
Lauri Markkanen led Utah with 21 points, nine rebounds and six assists, but the Jazz struggled while hitting only 9 of 39 from 3-point range in the loss.
John Collins grabbed 18 rebounds and scored nine points for Utah, while Collin Sexton added 17 points.
The Jazz went on an 8-0 run in the third quarter and snagged a 77-74 lead on a Taylor Hendricks tip shot with 4:47 left in the period.
Kris Dunn gave Utah its biggest lead of the second half, 86-79, late in the third quarter.
Tre Mann then sparked the 14-0 Hornets run early in the fourth quarter with a floating jumper. That spurt included back-to-back 3s by Davis Bertans and Bridges.
Utah missed nine straight shots and committed three turnovers in the skid, which Keyonte George finally ended with 5:03 remaining.
Charlotte didn’t relent. Williams hit two 3s to help the Hornets take a pair of nine-point leads with under four minutes left.
Utah pulled within five, but Bridges made another 3 for an eight-point lead with 2:11 to go.
Charlotte used a 24-8 surge — fueled by 3s from Mann, Seth Curry and Bridges — to erase the Jazz’s early six-point lead and take its own 10-point advantage late in the first quarter.
Dunn hit a last-second floater to make it 34-26 heading into the second quarter. Charlotte went into halftime up 56-52.
The big difference of the first half was 3-point shooting. The Hornets made 10 of their first 13 attempts beyond the arc compared to 3-for-21 by Utah.
–Field Level Media