{"id":666549,"date":"2026-03-19T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/666549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:03:19","slug":"new-orleans-takes-home-win-streak-into-matchup-with-los-angeles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/666549\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans takes home win streak into matchup with Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (34-35, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> (24-46, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

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

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pelicans -1.5; over\/under is 233.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans hosts Los Angeles looking to continue its six-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans are 15-30 in conference matchups. New Orleans ranks seventh in the NBA<\/a> with 16.8 fast break points per game led by Trey Murphy III<\/a> averaging 3.4.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 21-22 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles ranks fifth in the Western Conference giving up just 112.8 points while holding opponents to 46.9% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans are shooting 46.6% from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points lower than the 46.9% the Clippers allow to opponents. The Clippers average 12.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.1 fewer made shots on average than the 14.3 per game the Pelicans give up.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Pelicans won 124-109 in the last meeting on March 19. Saddiq Bey<\/a> led the Pelicans with 25 points, and Kawhi Leonard<\/a> led the Clippers with 25 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Murphy is averaging 21.9 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.6 steals for the Pelicans. Bey is averaging 18.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kris Dunn<\/a> is scoring 7.7 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Clippers. Leonard is averaging 26.8 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 6-4, averaging 120.0 points, 47.2 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 8.5 steals and 6.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Clippers: 6-4, averaging 121.0 points, 40.3 rebounds, 24.0 assists, 10.9 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.9 points.<\/p>\n

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

Clippers: Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip), Bennedict Mathurin: out (toe), Nicolas Batum: out (rest).<\/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":"Los Angeles Clippers (34-35, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (24-46, 12th in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,3086,78812,529,528,192,1407,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,1020,6514,10948],"class_list":["post-666549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-bradley-beal","tag-event_preview","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-kris-dunn","tag-la-clippers","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelicans","tag-saddiq-bey","tag-trey-murphy-iii","tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116254806178073030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666549","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=666549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}