{"id":681642,"date":"2026-03-27T07:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681642\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:41:14","slug":"new-orleans-plays-toronto-on-4-game-road-skid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681642\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans plays Toronto on 4-game road skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> (25-49, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors<\/a> (40-32, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Friday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Raptors -8.5; over\/under is 227.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans hits the road against Toronto looking to break its four-game road skid.<\/p>\n

The Raptors have gone 19-16 at home. Toronto is 7-4 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans are 9-27 on the road. New Orleans ranks third in the Western Conference with 16.6 fast break points per game led by Trey Murphy III<\/a> averaging 3.3.<\/p>\n

The Raptors average 113.9 points per game, 5.4 fewer points than the 119.3 the Pelicans give up. The Pelicans are shooting 46.6% from the field, 0.1% lower than the 46.7% the Raptors’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time this season. The Pelicans won 122-111 in the last matchup on March 12.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Scottie Barnes<\/a> is averaging 18.5 points, 7.8 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.5 blocks for the Raptors. Ja’Kobe Walter is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Derik Queen<\/a> is scoring 11.3 points per game and averaging 6.8 rebounds for the Pelicans. Zion Williamson<\/a> is averaging 20.3 points and 5.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 5-5, averaging 116.2 points, 40.1 rebounds, 30.0 assists, 9.2 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pelicans: 5-5, averaging 116.9 points, 43.6 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 9.3 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Raptors: Immanuel Quickley: out (foot).<\/p>\n

Pelicans: Trey Murphy III: day to day (ankle), Bryce McGowens<\/a>: day to day (toe).<\/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":"New Orleans Pelicans (25-49, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (40-32, sixth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,7214,803,78812,1407,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,1261,476,6514,814],"class_list":["post-681642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-bryce-mcgowens","tag-derik-queen","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelicans","tag-scottie-barnes","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-trey-murphy-iii","tag-zion-williamson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116300014411306903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681642","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=681642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}