{"id":389722,"date":"2025-11-05T05:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/389722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:43:11","slug":"alvarados-3-pointer-sends-pelicans-past-hornets-for-their-first-win-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/389722\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvarado\u2019s 3-pointer sends Pelicans past Hornets for their first win of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Jose Alvarado made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 16 seconds left and the New Orleans Pelicans won for the first time this season by beating the Charlotte Hornets 116-112 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Trey Murphy III scored 21 points for the Pelicans, who had dropped their first six games. Their victory left the Brooklyn Nets (0-7) as the NBA\u2019s only winless team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alvarado added 18 points and fellow reserve Saddiq Bey had 17 for the Pelicans, who announced earlier Tuesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pelicans-zion-williamson-injury-d1d75a6f906eafd3bfc32b069af82a15?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Williamson would miss at least a week<\/a> because of a strained left hamstring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Miles Bridges scored 22 points and rookie Kon Knueppel had 20 points and 12 rebounds for the Hornets, who played without LaMelo Ball for a second straight game because of a right ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Trailing by two at halftime, Charlotte opened the third quarter with an 11-0 run to take a lead it held all the way until Alvarado dribbled right and pulled up for his go-ahead shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rookie Derik Queen then came up with his fourth steal of the game after Charlotte inbounded and Murphy made two free throws to make it 115-112. Bridges missed a tying 3-point attempt and Bey made a free throw to close the scoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Queen scored all of his 12 points in the final quarter and also had eight rebounds and seven assists in 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hornets: Visit Miami on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pelicans: Visit Dallas on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Jose Alvarado made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 16 seconds left and the New Orleans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[382,7,46009,59796,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,59797],"class_list":{"0":"post-389722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-charlie-kirk","11":"tag-cienega-high-school","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-orleans","14":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","15":"tag-neworleans","16":"tag-neworleanspelicans","17":"tag-pelicans","18":"tag-teachers-threatened-over-halloween-costumes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115495502135553894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}