{"id":668058,"date":"2026-03-20T03:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/668058\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:32:21","slug":"pelicans-pull-off-mini-sweep-of-clippers-who-have-lost-four-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/668058\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans pull off mini-sweep of Clippers, who have lost four straight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW ORLEANS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Trey Murphy III scored 27 points and the New Orleans Pelicans extended their home winning streak to seven games with <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lac-vs-nop-0022501012\/box-score\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a 105-99 victory<\/a> over <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Clippers<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Saddiq Bey had 20 points and Zion Williamson added 15 for the Pelicans, who swept the two-game set against the Clippers <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\/story\/2026-03-18\/los-angeles-clippers-new-orleans-nba-game-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after a 124-109 win<\/a>, also at home, on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dejounte Murray was held out to rest as part of his comeback from a ruptured Achilles tendon. He had 17 points and a season-high 11 assists Wednesday night in his ninth game since making his season debut last month.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Jones Jr. scored 22 points, John Collins had 18 and Bogdan Bogdanovic added 16 for the Clippers, who <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lost their fourth in a row<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi Leonard sat out a night after scoring 25 points and grabbing eight rebounds in his return from a one-game absence because of a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans trailed 94-91 with 5:53 after Collins\u2019 floater, but Williamson made a layup and Murphy hit a three-pointer to put New Orleans up for good as it closed with a 14-5 run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Trey Murphy III scored 27 points and the New Orleans Pelicans extended their home winning streak to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,7736,559,142,1515,6971,11168,85541,6,478,470,4073,4072,30818,675,65,1020,85542,16452,9753,814],"class_list":["post-668058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-clipper","tag-clippers","tag-game","tag-home","tag-john-collins","tag-layup","tag-min-sweep","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelican","tag-pelicans","tag-point","tag-saddiq-bey","tag-season-debut-last-month","tag-thursday-night","tag-wednesday-night","tag-zion-williamson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116259398992564736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668058","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=668058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}