Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Charlotte Hornets vs. Houston Rockets
Thursday, February 05, 2026 8:10 PM
Play: Point Spread: +4.5/-110 Charlotte Hornets
The Hornets come into this game fresh off a seventh straight win and impressively during that streak they have wins over the 76ers and Spurs. Charlotte hasn’t been super active here coming up to the trade deadline and it doesn’t look like they need to do much as their core of elite level young talent has put them in excellent shape to compete in the Eastern Conference. Swapping Colin Sexton for Coby White kind of seems like a treading water kind of move to me. Houston has been looked to as a team that could be active at the trade deadline as they need a true PG pretty bad but as of now no moves have been made. Houston doesn’t have an elite level bench unless Reed Sheppard is having one of those nights where he is going nuts, and a lot of the offense comes down to KD or Sengun kind of taking over and carrying the load. Take Charlotte and the points here on the road. The Hornets are 16-11 ATS on the road this season so they can feel very good about that and we see Houston is only 8-13 ATS playing at home and they will be playing on no rest in this one going 3-3 ATS this season when playing on back-to-back nights.