{"id":695841,"date":"2026-04-03T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695841\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:31:53","slug":"jrue-holiday-has-27-to-lead-the-blazers-to-a-118-106-win-over-the-pelicans-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695841\/","title":{"rendered":"Jrue Holiday has 27 to lead the Blazers to a 118-106 win over the Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">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\u2019s new owners looking on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">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<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/W4JGEWBYHBCH3NQHASQVXPWI4A.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija (8) goes to the basket as Portland Trail Blazers new owner Tom Dundon, second from right, watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Portland, Ore.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:5763 \/ 3842;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija (8) goes to the basket as Portland Trail Blazers new owner Tom Dundon, second from right, watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Jenny Kane \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Jeremiah Fears had 21 points off the bench for the Pelicans, who have lost 11 of their last 12 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">After trailing at the half, the Blazers went up 106-96 on Holiday\u2019s 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<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">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\u2019d have to win one game to advance to the playoffs, whereas in ninth, they\u2019d have to win two. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Members <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trail-blazers-tom-dundon-paul-allen-2ed5b4d00908e33cfd0e5f25dbde53ab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">of the Blazers\u2019 new ownership group<\/a> 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<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">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<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LBGTZ4KBDBDJLCDBTIOWGEH734.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers new owner Tom Dundon, right is seated before an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Portland, Ore.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:5086 \/ 3391;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers new owner Tom Dundon, right is seated before an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Jenny Kane \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">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<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">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<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Pelicans visit the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Trail Blazers visit the Nuggets on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jrue Holiday had 27 points, including seven 3-pointers, and the Trail Blazers downed the New Orleans Pelicans 118-106&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-695841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116341032866951872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695841","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=695841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}