{"id":290938,"date":"2025-11-17T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290938\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:51:09","slug":"thunder-preview-okc-in-new-orleans-to-face-the-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290938\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Preview: OKC in New Orleans to face the Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            NEW ORLEANS, La.  &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/entity\/city-thunder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">City Thunder<\/a> visit New Orleans on Monday night for a matchup with the 2-11 Pelicans, the last-place team in the NBA\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/entity\/western-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Western Conference<\/a> so far at this point in the season. <\/p>\n<p>The Thunder and Gilgeous-Alexander are looking for their sixth consecutive win and to improve to a league-best 14-1 record. <\/p>\n<p>Tip-off is at 7 p.m. inside the Smoothie King Center. SGA is looking for his 87th straight game scoring 20+ points. <\/p>\n<p>OKC has already beaten the Pelicans once this season, 137-106 in the last meeting on Nov. 2. SGA scored 30 points while <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/entity\/zion-williamson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Zion Williamson<\/a>, listed as Day-to-Day for Monday\u2019s matchup, scored 20 to lead the way for New Orleans. <\/p>\n<p>The Thunder are big favorites (-17.5) and it could be another early exit for SGA, who has sat out eight fourth quarters in 14 games this season. Still, he\u2019s averaging 32.6 PPG, that is third-best in the league behind Antetokounmpo and Doncic. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Pelicans fired head coach Willie Green after the poor start to the season. Assistant James Borrego is serving as the interim coach. In his first game at the position, they lost to the Golden State Warriors 124-106. Tonight is the second half of a back-to-back home stand for the Pels. <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" href=\"#new-orleans-pelicans-coach-willie-green-fired-after-2-10-start\" id=\"new-orleans-pelicans-coach-willie-green-fired-after-2-10-start\" name=\"new-orleans-pelicans-coach-willie-green-fired-after-2-10-start\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"New Orleans Pelicans coach Willie Green fired after 2-10 start\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/sports\/new-orleans-pelicans-coach-willie-green-fired-after-2-10-start\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Pelicans coach Willie Green stands with arms crossed courtside\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763405469_937_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n        Injuries have decimated Green\u2019s roster the last several years but the results were impossible to ignore\n    <\/p>\n<p>November 15, 2025 09:30 AM<\/p>\n<p>2 min read<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report<\/p>\n<p>\n    Thunder<\/p>\n<p>Alex Caruso &#8211; Game Time Decision <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/entity\/kenrich-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kenrich Williams<\/a> &#8211; OUTJalen Williams &#8211; OUTAaron Wiggins &#8211; OUTNikola topic &#8211; OUT<\/p>\n<p>Pelicans<\/p>\n<p>Zion Williamson &#8211; Game Time Decision Jordan Poole &#8211; OUT<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news9.com\/entity\/dejounte-murray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dejounte Murray<\/a> &#8211; OUT<\/p>\n<p>Where and When to Watch<br \/>Date: Monday, Nov. 17<br \/>Time: 7 p.m. CST<br \/>Where: Smoothie King Center, New Orleans<br \/>TV: FanDuel Sports Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS, La. &#8211; The Oklahoma City Thunder visit New Orleans on Monday night for a matchup with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-290938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}