LaMelo Ball scored a career high 38 points, but the Charlotte Hornets dropped a back and forth contest to the Boston Celtics, 113-107.
The teams traded baskets in a frenetic first quarter that saw little in the way of interior defense for the first several minutes. The Hornets gave up five dunks in the quarter, but that was skewed towards the early parts of the game. They trailed by five at quarter’s end despite relatively poor shooting to that point.
The Hornets gave up back to back to back open 3-pointers to Jason Richardson to start the second quarter.