{"id":652223,"date":"2026-03-11T06:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/652223\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:43:20","slug":"new-orleans-puts-home-win-streak-on-the-line-against-toronto-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/652223\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans puts home win streak on the line against Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Raptors<\/a> (36-28, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> (21-45, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

New Orleans; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Raptors -1.5; over\/under is 232.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans hosts Toronto aiming to extend its three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans are 12-21 on their home court. New Orleans is 11-20 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are 19-12 on the road. Toronto is 7-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans are shooting 46.4% from the field this season, the same percentage the Raptors allow to opponents. The Raptors average 11.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.0 fewer made shots on average than the 14.4 per game the Pelicans give up.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III<\/a> is scoring 22.0 points per game with 5.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Pelicans. Saddiq Bey<\/a> is averaging 22.0 points and 5.4 rebounds while shooting 49.7% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Scottie Barnes<\/a> is scoring 19.0 points per game with 7.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists for the Raptors. RJ Barrett<\/a> is averaging 19.1 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 52.2% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 6-4, averaging 120.6 points, 45.7 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 8.9 steals and 6.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Raptors: 4-6, averaging 109.8 points, 38.5 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 9.0 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pelicans: Bryce McGowens: out (toe).<\/p>\n

Raptors: Trayce Jackson-Davis: day to day (hand), Jakob Poeltl<\/a>: day to day (illness), Collin Murray-Boyles: out (thumb).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors (36-28, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (21-45, 13th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,78812,1399,1407,6,470,681,1041,1020,1261,680,476,3820,6514],"class_list":["post-652223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-toronto-raptors","tag-basketball","tag-event_preview","tag-jakob-poeltl","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-raptors","tag-rj-barrett","tag-saddiq-bey","tag-scottie-barnes","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors","tag-trey-murphy-iii"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116209189384278718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652223","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=652223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}