{"id":695338,"date":"2026-04-03T05:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695338\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:02:24","slug":"jrue-holiday-has-27-to-lead-the-blazers-to-a-118-106-win-over-the-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695338\/","title":{"rendered":"Jrue Holiday has 27 to lead the Blazers to a 118-106 win over the Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Jrue Holiday had 27 points, including seven 3-pointers, and the Trail Blazers downed the New Orleans Pelicans 118-106 on Thursday night with Portland’s new owners looking on. <\/p>\n

Deni Avdija added 26 points for the Blazers, who have won three straight and eight of their last 10 games. Toumani Camara finished with 23 points. <\/p>\n

Jeremiah Fears had 21 points off the bench for the Pelicans, who have lost 11 of their last 12 games. <\/p>\n

After trailing at the half, the Blazers went up 106-96 on Holiday’s deep 3-pointer midway through the fourth quarter. His 3 with 1:21 left made it 116-105 and all but sealed it for Portland. Holiday finished with nine assists. <\/p>\n

The Blazers have already clinched a play-in game. The team sits a half-game back of the eighth-place Clippers. If the Blazers can move into eighth, they’d have to win one game to advance to the playoffs, whereas in ninth, they’d have to win two. <\/p>\n

Members of the Blazers’ new ownership group were sitting courtside during the game. The NBA Board of Governors on Monday approved the reported $4.25 billion sale of the team by Paul Allen\u2019s estate and the new owners took over the team on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The group is led by investor Tom Dundon and includes Portland-based Sheel Tyle, the co-founder of investment firm Collective Global; Marc Zahr, co-president of Blue Owl Capital; the Cherng Family Trust, the investment firm of the co-founders of Panda Express, and others. <\/p>\n

\"Portland<\/p>\n

Portland Trail Blazers forward Toumani Camara reacts after making a 3-pointer during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Portland, Ore. Credit: AP\/Jenny Kane<\/p>\n

The Pelicans went up 48-39 in the first half but Portland closed the gap with a pair of 3-pointers from Scoot Henderson and Avdija that made it 60-57. The Pelicans led 64-60 at the break. <\/p>\n

Matisse Thybulle hit a 3-pointer that gave the Blazers a 77-76 lead in the third. Camara pushed the lead to 83-76 with another 3. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Pelicans visit the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. <\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers visit the Nuggets on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Jrue Holiday had 27 points, including seven 3-pointers, and the Trail Blazers downed the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,471,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-695338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanspelicans","14":"tag-pelicans","15":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","16":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116339026111666360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695338","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=695338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}