{"id":708196,"date":"2026-04-11T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708196\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:39:19","slug":"pelicans-fall-to-celtics-144-118-in-their-penultimate-game-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708196\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans fall to Celtics, 144-118, in their penultimate game of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BOSTON (WVUE) &#8211; Rookie Jeremiah Fears followed up his career-high 40 point game against the Jazz with a 36-point effort against the Celtics. But that wasn\u2019t enough to deliver a Pelicans win in Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Orleans dropped its penultimate game of the 2025-26 season to the Celtics, 144-118.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Boston tied its franchise and NBA record with 29 three-pointers against the Pels. With the victory, the Celtics also clinched the No. 2 playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pelicans rookie Derik Queen posted a double-double with 25 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pelicans close their season Sunday at Minnesota. The contest tips off at 7:30 p.m. on Gulf Coast Sports &amp; Entertainment Network. The pregame show starts at 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/04\/11\/pelicans-fall-their-penultimate-game-season-celtics-144-118\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (WVUE) &#8211; Rookie Jeremiah Fears followed up his career-high 40 point game against the Jazz with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,2311],"class_list":{"0":"post-708196","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-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116386356447849950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708196","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=708196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}