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Pelicans Fall to 0-4 via 103-94 Loss to Magic – Running Diary Recap
In order to discuss and help recap tonight’s game, I enlisted the help of Eddy Rivera, an avid Orlando Magic follower (formerly of Orlando Pinstriped Post and Magic Basketball) and great basketball mind, not to mention a fellow current Chicagoan. Eddy and I had a back-and-forth email thread as the game progressed, in which we discussed some of […]
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Recap: Pelicans Lose Home Opener to the Warriors
The New Orleans Pelicans (0-3) lost their home opener against the Golden State Warriors (3-0) 134-120. Steph Curry led the Warriors scoring 53 points on 17/27 shooting. He made 8/14 shots from beyond the arc and all 11 of his free throws. Draymond Green made four of five shots from beyond the arc on his […]
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Moleskin Moments: Warriors beat the Pels in Home Opener
First Quarter 7:41 Like a flurry during a prize fight, every time Davis gets matched up with Curry the audience holds their breath. 6:09 in the 1Q 17-17. Thompson just picked up his second foul. Toney Douglas comes in for Jrue Holiday after 6 minutes. Holiday was 1/4 for 2 points with 2 assists. 5:13 […]
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Game On: Warriors v. Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans come into tonight’s home opener 0-2, after a couple of roughing outings in Oakland and Portland. Here are the keys to the game in order to avoid an 0-3 start as they take on the Golden State Warriors: Get Anthony Davis Going: This may be the most important and easiest key […]
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Pelicans Mount Furious Comeback but Fall Short in Portland
It was over almost as soon as it began. In almost a carbon copy of last night’s demolishing by the defending champs, the Pelicans out did themselves, getting blown out by the Portland Trail Blazers. It took New Orleans a half to get to where Portland was after the one quarter, as the Pels got outscored […]
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Game On: Trail Blazers Host Pelicans on Second of Back-to-Back
The Pelicans look to bounce back after a shaky start to the season in Oakland against theTrail Blazers in Portland Wednesday night (tip off for 9CT). The Blazers lost 4 starters from last season to the competition this summer, while the Pelicans are missing 4 regular rotation players of their own to injury (Omer Asik, […]
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Pelicans Squeak Out a Win Against the Heat in Preseason Finale
Anthony Davis and Eric Gordon combined for 47 points and the Pelicans beat the Miami Heat 93-90 in their last preseaon game on Ochsner’s Breast Cancer Awareness Night at the Smoothie King Center. In a game that saw a lot of starters see a lot of minutes, the short-handed Pels managed to hold on to […]
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Pelicans Play the Heat in Final Preseason Game
In the final warmup for the regular season the Pelicans play the Miami Heat tonight at the Smoothie King Center, tip off for 7pm CT. Tonight is all about one thing: get through the ******* game without injuries. The Pels have had the luck of Marsellus Wallace, who, while out shopping for donuts, just happened […]
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Short-Handed Pelicans Need Preseason Overtime to Lose to Magic
After four quarters, the New Orleans Pelicans had 101 points, matching that of the hosting Orlando Magic. Nate Robinson scored the Pelicans’ only field goals in the extra period. after 19 seconds and at the buzzer. Davis added a pair of free throws, but the Magic scored 9 between Nate’s buckets, and the Magic won […]
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Davis Returns as Pelicans Play the Magic
The New Orleans Pelicans play the Orlando Magic tonight at 6pm CT (UTC -5). The game is in Orlando at the majestic Amway Center, is not being televised, and is available locally on the radio network, 99.5 FM in New Orleans, or the Pelicans app. Nothing new to report on the injury front that is […]
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Injuries Keep Piling Up As Tyreke Evans Has Surgery
The New Orleans Pelicans just can’t catch a break. Or maybe all that occurs are breaks. Or more injuries. How many times has this been said this season? And it hasn’t even really started yet. Today the Pelicans announced that Tyreke Evans underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. A timetable for his return […]
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Some Pelicans Lose to the Rockets
Some guys wore Pelicans’ jerseys tonight and played a preseason game against the Houston Rockets. You may have recognized a few, but with Anthony Davis, Tyreke Evans, Omer Asik, Alexis Ajinca, and a bunch more in street clothes you probably didn’t recognize most of the team. It’d be easy to write this game off as utterly […]
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Some Pelicans Against More Rockets
The New Orleans Pelicans take on the Houston Rockets tonight at 7 pm CT (UTC -5) at the Toyota Center situated above the underground part of downtown Houston. The game is on 99.5 FM locally, on the Pelicans radio network regionally, but Houston has local TV coverage. This is not faithfully accurate . . . […]
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In The Land of Rupp, The One-Browed Man is King (but the Pels lose)
Davis put up a 19pt, 8reb, 3stl stat-line on 7/15 shooting, hitting 2/4 3’s, and Cousins put up 19pts, 5rebs, 5TO’s on 4/12 shooting before fouling out, and the Pels fell to the Kings 107 to 98 in Rupp Arena tonight. Both big men looked good tonight, but Boogie’s right hand man Rudy Gay put […]
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Kings @ Pels in Rupp Arena Match Up of Kentucky Big Men
The New Orleans Pelicans host the Sacramento Kings in Rupp Arena tonight (10/17) at 7 ET in a preseason match up of former Wildcat big men. Demarcus Cousins (drafted 2010) and Anthony Davis (drafted 2012) are two statistically dominant big men who always make a good show. The Pelicans have been plagued by injuries again so […]
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69 Point Second Half Propels Pelicans to 123-115 Victory over Bulls
In a game that looked very close to out of reach for the Pelicans near the end of the first half, New Orleans came storming back in the third and carried the onslaught into the 4th behind some hot shooting beyond the arc. The Bulls made it a game again about halfway through the 4th quarter behind the […]
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New Orleans Pelicans, Anthony Davis Visit Chicago
The New Orleans Pelicans play the Chicago Bulls in Chicago at Monday at 7pm CT (UTC -5). The game is on NBA TV and the Pelicans radio network, 99.5 FM locally. The Pelicans list their probable starters as Cunningham, Davis, Evans, Gordon, and Perkins, though Gordon is questionable with back spasms. (Gordon played just 10 […]
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Pelicans Continue to Install New System Against Hawks
The New Orleans Pelicans lost a preseason game to the Atlanta Hawks Friday night, 93-103. As with most preseason games, the loss does not matter in terms of predicting measuring regular season performance because so many minutes were assigned to players who would not normally get minutes, even if they stay on the team. Here […]
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The Second Tower Falls
And unlike the falling of Orthanc of Isengard and Minas Morgul of Mordor, this is not a good thing. Pelicans’ Center Omer Asik is set to miss 3 weeks with a right calf strain, becoming the second Pelican Center who signed a multi-year deal this summer to get injured this preseason. Obviously this is not a […]
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Alexis Ajinca To Miss 4-6 Weeks
Pelican Center Alexis Ajinca strained his right hamstring in the first half of this past weekend’s preseason game against the Indiana Pacers and is expected to be out for 4 to 6 weeks. This is not too much to fret about, the backup could be back in time for New Orleans’ season opener in Golden State, […]