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Charlotte Hornets vs. Indiana Pacers

January 8, 2026 · 2025-26 season

The Pacers beat the Hornets 114-112 on 2026-01-08 on the road against the Hornets. The Hornets started Miles Bridges, Collin Sexton, Moussa Diabaté, Brandon Miller, and Kon Knueppel. The Pacers started Pascal Siakam, Aaron Nesmith, Jay Huff, Quenton Jackson, and Johnny Furphy. Pascal Siakam (Pacers) scored 9 points (4/9) in his matchups, with Miles Bridges as his primary defender. LaMelo Ball (Hornets) scored 2 points (1/3) in his matchups, with Ben Sheppard as his primary defender.

Box score

In orange, the game high in points, rebounds and assists.

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Charlotte Hornets 112

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Miles Bridges GS	36:07	19	6	4	1	0	2	1	7-13	3-6	2-4	0
Moussa Diabaté GS	35:41	10	5	1	0	1	1	4	2-5	0-0	6-8	-3
Kon Knueppel GS	29:20	18	8	3	1	0	0	4	5-12	2-6	6-6	-14
Brandon Miller GS	19:05	6	4	3	0	2	3	2	2-8	1-5	1-2	-7
Collin Sexton GS	17:54	11	0	5	2	0	3	4	5-9	1-3	0-0	-22
LaMelo Ball	26:49	33	3	8	3	0	3	3	12-24	7-15	2-2	+19
Sion James	22:13	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	1-3	1-3	1-2	+3
Josh Green	17:32	3	0	0	1	0	1	1	1-3	1-2	0-0	+8
Tidjane Salaün	13:16	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	2-5	0-3	0-0	+1
Liam McNeeley	11:15	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1-2	0-1	0-0	+7
PJ Hall	10:48	2	4	1	0	0	2	1	1-2	0-0	0-0	-2
Totals		112	35	29	8	3	16	22	39-86	16-44	18-24

Did not play: Pat Connaughton (DNP - Coach's Decision), Tre Mann (DNP - Coach's Decision)

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Indiana Pacers 114

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Pascal Siakam GS	35:30	30	14	3	0	0	6	2	12-23	3-4	3-3	+7
Aaron Nesmith GS	35:13	16	5	2	1	1	2	5	5-12	3-7	3-3	+17
Johnny Furphy GS	26:17	7	6	2	1	1	1	3	1-3	1-2	4-4	+5
Jay Huff GS	24:13	10	2	0	0	3	1	5	4-4	2-2	0-0	+13
Quenton Jackson GS	17:57	4	0	5	1	1	1	2	2-7	0-2	0-0	-6
T.J. McConnell	27:47	23	4	8	4	0	4	2	10-17	1-3	2-2	+10
Ben Sheppard	26:32	7	4	2	0	0	0	3	2-4	1-3	2-3	-16
Tony Bradley	15:00	7	3	0	1	0	2	1	3-3	0-0	1-1	+7
Jarace Walker	12:33	2	3	1	1	0	1	0	0-5	0-2	2-2	-7
Micah Potter	8:27	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	2-4	1-2	0-0	-16
Ethan Thompson	8:15	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	0-0	0-0	3-3	-2
Kam Jones	2:16	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	-2
Totals		114	41	25	9	6	19	27	41-82	12-27	20-21

Did not play: Andrew Nembhard (DNP - Injury/Illness)

Lineups

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Charlotte Hornets

Starting lineup

The 5 most-used lineups:

Miles Bridges · Collin Sexton · Moussa Diabaté · Brandon Miller · Kon Knueppel Starter 7.6 min
Miles Bridges · LaMelo Ball · Moussa Diabaté · Kon Knueppel · Sion James 4.6 min
Miles Bridges · Collin Sexton · Moussa Diabaté · Liam McNeeley · Sion James 4.5 min
Miles Bridges · LaMelo Ball · Moussa Diabaté · Brandon Miller · Liam McNeeley 3.9 min
LaMelo Ball · PJ Hall · Tidjane Salaün · Kon Knueppel · Sion James 3.4 min

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Indiana Pacers

Starting lineup

The 5 most-used lineups:

Pascal Siakam · Aaron Nesmith · Jay Huff · Quenton Jackson · Johnny Furphy Starter 8.6 min
T.J. McConnell · Tony Bradley · Aaron Nesmith · Ethan Thompson · Jarace Walker 6.1 min
T.J. McConnell · Pascal Siakam · Aaron Nesmith · Jay Huff · Johnny Furphy 4.2 min
T.J. McConnell · Pascal Siakam · Jay Huff · Ben Sheppard · Johnny Furphy 4.1 min
T.J. McConnell · Pascal Siakam · Tony Bradley · Aaron Nesmith · Ben Sheppard 3.8 min

Who guarded whom

Based on stats.nba.com matchup data. Points and shooting are always the offensive player's.

Hornets defense

Pascal Siakam 9 pts (4/9) in 71 possessions

Guarded by: Miles Bridges (61 %, 5 pts) · Moussa Diabaté (9 %, 0 pts) · Josh Green (8 %, 0 pts)
T.J. McConnell 5 pts (2/8) in 48 possessions

Guarded by: Sion James (25 %, 0 pts) · Collin Sexton (16 %, 2 pts) · Josh Green (13 %, 0 pts)

Defender	Guarded most
Moussa Diabaté	Jay Huff: 31 poss., 7 pts (1/4) · Tony Bradley: 10 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Miles Bridges	Pascal Siakam: 43 poss., 5 pts (2/4) · Johnny Furphy: 5 poss., 1 pts (0/0)
LaMelo Ball	Ben Sheppard: 16 poss., 4 pts (2/4) · Aaron Nesmith: 9 poss., 3 pts (1/5)
Kon Knueppel	Johnny Furphy: 18 poss., 3 pts (1/2) · Aaron Nesmith: 10 poss., 3 pts (0/2)
Brandon Miller	Aaron Nesmith: 16 poss., 0 pts (0/2) · Ben Sheppard: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Sion James	T.J. McConnell: 12 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Aaron Nesmith: 9 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Josh Green	Ben Sheppard: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · T.J. McConnell: 6 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Collin Sexton	Quenton Jackson: 11 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · T.J. McConnell: 8 poss., 2 pts (1/2)
Tidjane Salaün	Jarace Walker: 15 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Pascal Siakam: 3 poss., 2 pts (1/2)
PJ Hall	Tony Bradley: 12 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Micah Potter: 3 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Liam McNeeley	T.J. McConnell: 6 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Johnny Furphy: 6 poss., 0 pts (0/0)

Pacers defense

LaMelo Ball 2 pts (1/3) in 53 possessions

Guarded by: Ben Sheppard (21 %, 0 pts) · Aaron Nesmith (20 %, 0 pts) · Quenton Jackson (12 %, 0 pts)
Brandon Miller 6 pts (2/7) in 38 possessions

Guarded by: Aaron Nesmith (27 %, 2 pts) · Ben Sheppard (22 %, 0 pts) · Johnny Furphy (11 %, 0 pts)

Defender	Guarded most
Pascal Siakam	Miles Bridges: 24 poss., 7 pts (3/3) · Moussa Diabaté: 17 poss., 17 pts (7/10)
Aaron Nesmith	Sion James: 11 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · LaMelo Ball: 10 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Ben Sheppard	LaMelo Ball: 11 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Brandon Miller: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
T.J. McConnell	Sion James: 11 poss., 4 pts (1/3) · Kon Knueppel: 6 poss., 8 pts (4/6)
Johnny Furphy	Kon Knueppel: 12 poss., 2 pts (0/0) · Collin Sexton: 7 poss., 3 pts (1/1)
Jay Huff	Moussa Diabaté: 21 poss., 8 pts (3/3) · Miles Bridges: 11 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Tony Bradley	PJ Hall: 13 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Moussa Diabaté: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Quenton Jackson	Collin Sexton: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · LaMelo Ball: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Jarace Walker	Tidjane Salaün: 17 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Sion James: 3 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Micah Potter	PJ Hall: 5 poss., 2 pts (1/1) · Miles Bridges: 5 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Ethan Thompson	Kon Knueppel: 9 poss., 3 pts (0/0) · PJ Hall: 2 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Kam Jones	LaMelo Ball: 4 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Moussa Diabaté: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0)