Portland Trail Blazers (5-5, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (2-8, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Western Conference foes New Orleans and Portland meet on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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New Orleans went 21-61 overall, 13-38 in Western Conference play and 14-27 at home during the 2024-25 season. The Pelicans averaged 109.8 points per game last season, 16.5 from the free-throw line and 36 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Portland finished 36-46 overall and 19-33 in Western Conference action during the 2024-25 season. The Trail Blazers gave up 113.9 points per game while committing 19.0 fouls last season.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Zion Williamson: out (hamstring), Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Jordan Poole: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers (5-5, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (2-8, 15th in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,7008,601,125,2878,2771,7211,6,478,470,687,471,3967,4425,1617,574,814],"class_list":{"0":"post-403195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blake-wesley","10":"tag-blazers","11":"tag-damian-lillard","12":"tag-dejounte-murray","13":"tag-jordan-poole","14":"tag-matisse-thybulle","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-new-orleans","17":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","18":"tag-portland","19":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","20":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","21":"tag-scoot-henderson","22":"tag-trail-blazers","23":"tag-western-conference","24":"tag-zion-williamson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115530007503406991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403195","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=403195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}