Hornets Beat Suns 85-84

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Eric Gordon could hardly have made a better first impression. The high-scoring guard sank a 20-footer from the top of the key with 4.2 seconds to play in his New Orleans debut to give the Hornets an 85-84 victory over the Phoenix Suns in their season opener Monday night."You put the ball in his hands and you tell him to go to work," Williams said.

 

"All that stuff that we've been through with a lot of changes during the offseason," Gordon said, "I just wanted this game really bad."

 

"We just gritted it out late," Hornets coach Monty Williams said. "Obviously all the teams around the league who are playing with new guys are trying to figure things out, but I just thought we just stuck with our stuff."

 

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Game Notes:

• Attendance was 17,776, just shy of a sellout.
• Gordon drew three fouls in a span of less than three minutes in the third quarter.