A second straight 40-plus-point performance courtesy of Miles Bridges still wasn’t enough for the Charlotte Hornets to evade a 123-117 home loss to Toronto on Wednesday evening, which extended their losing streak to nine games.
Two nights after his then career-high 41 points, Bridges topped that mark with 45 points on 17-of-27 shooting, six 3-pointers, eight rebounds and seven assists in the defeat. This made Bridges just the third different player in franchise history with back-to-back 40-point games in the same season (Glen Rice 2x, Kemba Walker), and the third to ever reach 45 points in a single game (Walker 6x, Rice), per Basketball Reference.