The Charlotte Hornets are back on the winning track, defeating the Chicago Bulls in both teams' final matches in the 2025 NBA Cup. The win snapped the Hornets' seven-game losing streak and 10-game skid in the in-season tournament, a bad run that stretches back to 2023. What's more for them, though, is that they wrapped up a dub in the clutch for the first time in six tries this year.
Intriguingly, Charlotte became the last team to secure a victory in clutch situations, defined by the NBA as contests where the score differential is five points or fewer within the last five minutes of the fourth quarter, this season.