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It wasn’t the prettiest game, but the Cleveland Cavaliers did enough in the fourth quarter to erase a 15-point deficit to defeat the New Orleans Pelicans 111-106. The Cavs found themselves down by double figures late, mostly due to their offense stalling out in the second and third quarters. Donovan Mitchell going 2-9 from the […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers narrowly won their final game of this road trip. Let’s go over today’s winners and losers. LOSER- Offensive Purpose I’ll just say it. This was one of the uglier games the Cavs have played this season. Calling it sloppy would be an understatement. For long stretches of this game, I had no […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers picked up an ugly win in New Orleans. These are the hardest games to grade, as the first three quarters put a heavy tarnish on an incredible comeback in the fourth. Please bear with me. All grades are based on our usual expectations for each player. Donovan Mitchell 27 points, 3 assists, […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers picked up an ugly win in New Orleans. These are the hardest games to grade, as the first three quarters put a heavy tarnish on an incredible comeback in the fourth. Please bear with me. All grades are based on our usual expectations for each player. Donovan Mitchell 27 points, 3 assists, […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers made things more interesting than they needed to be. They fell down by 15 early in the fourth quarter to a bad New Orleans Pelicans team before turning things around. Strong finishes from James Harden and Donovan Mitchell were enough to secure the 111-106 victory. As has been a recent trend, the […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers will be closer to full strength as Donovan Mitchell is back in the lineup in tonight’s showdown with the New Orleans Pelicans. Share your thoughts as the game unfolds. If you aren’t a member of the community, sign up so you can talk to your fellow Cavalier fans and make your voice […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers will look to finish off this three-game road trip with three-straight wins. Like the other two teams the Cavs have already faced, their opponent on Saturday — the New Orleans Pelicans — isn’t exactly playing their best basketball. The Pelicans aren’t tanking. They don’t have their 2026 first after trading it away […]
The Dallas Mavericks (23-47) welcome the Los Angeles Clippers (34-36) to town, as both teams look to get back into the win column. The Mavericks are coming off a 135-120 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday, and the Clippers are looking to get right after consecutive losses to the New Orleans Pelicans. Here are […]
The Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Pelicans, and Memphis Grizzlies are well out of the play-in race and have their sights set on the loaded 2026 NBA Draft. As of this post, the three teams are separated by one game, with Memphis (23-44) having two fewer losses than Dallas (23-46) and New Orleans (23-46). As the […]
How quickly things can change. It was just a week ago that the Toronto Raptors lost by double digits to the New Orleans Pelicans, and the team (minus Immanuel Quickley) seemed perfectly alright with Dejounte Murray punking Jamal Shead. The team was dealing with the (data-backed) narrative that they took care of bad teams but […]
The Mavericks were 2-3 this past week and dropped to 13th place in the West. They lost by double-digits thrice, to Atlanta (124-112), Cleveland (138-105), and New Orleans (129-111), and beat Memphis (120-112) and Cleveland (130-120). Cooper Flagg led the team in scoring with 20 points per game. Grade: B The Mavericks got clobbered in […]
The Dallas Mavericks took on the New Orleans Pelicans Monday night to close out a seemingly endless road trip. The Pelicans dealt Dallas a 129-111 loss, resulting in a potentially meaningful impact on each team’s draft chances this offseason. With the loss, Dallas and New Orleans are now tied in the standings, but the Pelicans […]
The Dallas Mavericks lost 129-111 to the New Orleans Pelicans Monday night in New Orleans. This was the Mavericks fourth game in five nights, a rarity in the modern NBA, and the team certainly looked sluggish. New Orleans waxed the Mavericks from about midway through the first quarter and never truly looked back. The Pelicans […]
The Dallas Mavericks leaned further into the tank on Monday night, falling 129-111 to the New Orleans Pelicans in a game that never truly felt competitive down the stretch. Dallas showed brief life early, but couldn’t sustain it as the Pelicans controlled the pace and physicality for most of the night. Naji Marshall led the […]
The Dallas Mavericks (23-45) head to Louisiana to face of against an old friend/foe in the New Orleans Pelicans (22-46). Dallas took the Cavaliers to the woodshed on Sunday afternoon and have had a full day to recover and get ready for tonight’s game. The Pelicans, meanwhile, just keep winning. They have no incentive to […]
The Dallas Mavericks (23-45) are playing their second game in as many nights and their fourth in the last five days on Monday against the Pelicans in New Orleans. It is a tale of two tanks: one with real stakes, and a top-four pick on the line, and one with nothing to play for except […]
In this week’s Tuesday Tracker and SB Nation Reacts poll, we asked about the Bucks’ two centers, plus their closeness to the Pelicans in the lottery standings and Taurean Prince. Here are the highlights: Thanks again for voting! Check back on Tuesday for another slate of questions. Check out FanDuel, the official sportsbook of SB Nation.
The Houston Rockets were without Alperen Sengun, but Kevin Durant hit a jumper with seven seconds left, then two free throws a few seconds later to close the game out and give the Rockets a 107-105 victory that somehow has them in third place in the jam-packed Western Conference. Durant went for 32 points, 6 […]
Back from their disappointing Houston/New Orleans road trip and in Toronto to face the Phoenix Suns on Friday, the Raptors had a lot of people to answer to. Their last game was a horrible loss against the Pelicans, made even worse by a late-game scuffle that drew a ton of online criticism. The Raptors were […]
Houston Rockets vs New Orleans Pelicans March 13, 2026 Location: Toyota Center — Houston, Texas TV: Space City Home Network Radio: KBME Sports Talk 790 Online: Rockets App, SCHN+ Time: 7:00 CST Probable Starting Lineups Rockets: Amen Thompson, Tari Eason, Jabari Smith Jr., Kevin Durant, Alperen Sengun Pelicans: Dejounte Murray, Trey Murphy III, Saddiq Bey, Zion Williamson, Herbert Jones
The Houston Rockets open a five-game homestand that includes five losable games. “But Armin,” you say, “the New Orleans Pelicans are 22-45! They suck!” “Well actually,” I respond as I push my glassed up the bridge of my nose, “the Pelicans are 7-3 over their last 10 games. That includes wins over the Toronto Raptors, […]
Trailing by eight with under seven minutes remaining, the Lakers teetered on the edge of disaster against the lowly, but finally healthy, New Orleans Pelicans. Out of a timeout, head coach J.J. Redick chose to insert Jaxson Hayes. On the next defensive possession, Hayes absorbs Zion Williamson’s force on a drive, leading to a block […]
The Toronto Raptors lost an excruciating game to the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday night. You can’t even say it was because they were on the road, either, because the NOLA arena had like 10 people in it. It was rough. We could spend this time breaking down everything that went wrong for the Raptors. […]
The predominant narrative surrounding the Toronto Raptors lately has been that they struggle against good teams while beating up on the bad ones. The good news from tonight is that the Raptors broke free from that pattern. The bad news? Well, you know the bad news. The New Orleans Pelicans, who entered the game with […]
The Wizards lost their eighth in a row — this time a semi-competitive that transmogrified into a New Orleans Pelicans blowout. This game highlighted what different incentives does to teams. During the 2025 draft, the Pelicans traded this year’s first round pick in a deal to acquire Maryland center Derik Queen. New Orleans was terrible […]