{"id":615062,"date":"2026-02-21T03:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/615062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:57:18","slug":"bucks-beat-pelicans-139-118-for-their-3rd-straight-victory-and-6th-in-7-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/615062\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks beat Pelicans 139-118 for their 3rd straight victory and 6th in 7 games"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Ryan Rollins<\/a> made a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points to help the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> beat the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 139-118 on Friday night for their third straight victory and sixth in seven games.<\/p>\n

Playing without injured star Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>, the Bucks pulled away in the fourth quarter to improve to 24-30. Antetokounmpo has been sidelined four weeks by a strained right calf.<\/p>\n

Bucks newcomer Cam Thomas<\/a>, a former LSU star, had 27 points in 21 minutes off the bench, and Kevin Porter<\/a> added 25 points. Rollins was 7 of 10 on 3s and had six assists, four steals and two blocks. The Bucks were coming off a victory at defending champion Oklahoma City before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n

Zion Williamson<\/a> led New Orleans with 32 points in the first game of home back-to-back, while scoring leader Trey Murphy<\/a> sat out because of a sore right shoulder. The Pelicans dropped to 15-42.<\/p>\n

Rollins had 16 points in the first half to help Milwaukee take a 71-65 lead. Williamson had 21 points in the half.<\/p>\n

The Bucks took a 103-96 advantage into the fourth. After the Pelicans cut it to 108-102 on Williamson\u2019s layup, the Bucks pulled away with a 14-4 run. Pete Nance<\/a> hit two 3s and a layup during the run.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Bucks: Host Toronto on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Pelicans: Host Philadelphia on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Ryan Rollins made a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points to help the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,959,79016,123,365,121,1407,6,12,470,21490,2763,6514,814],"class_list":{"0":"post-615062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cam-thomas","10":"tag-event_recap","11":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","12":"tag-kevin-porter-jr","13":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-draft","17":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","18":"tag-pete-nance","19":"tag-ryan-rollins","20":"tag-trey-murphy-iii","21":"tag-zion-williamson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116106614902541332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615062","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=615062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}