{"id":493829,"date":"2026-02-21T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493829\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:42:09","slug":"bucks-139-118-pelicans-21-feb-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493829\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks 139-118 Pelicans (21 Feb, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4591725\/ryan-rollins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Rollins<\/a> made a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points to help the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/no\/new-orleans-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 139-118 on Friday night for their third straight victory and sixth in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>              Playing without injured star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032977\/giannis-antetokounmpo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>, the Bucks pulled away in the fourth quarter to improve to 24-30. Antetokounmpo has been sidelined four weeks by a strained right calf.<\/p>\n<p>              Bucks newcomer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432174\/cam-thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Thomas<\/a>, a former LSU star, had 27 points in 21 minutes off the bench, and Kevin Porter added 25 points. Rollins was 7 of 10 on 3s and had six assists, four steals and two blocks. The Bucks were coming off a victory at defending champion Oklahoma City before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395628\/zion-williamson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Williamson<\/a> led New Orleans with 32 points in the first game of home back-to-back, while scoring leader Trey Murphy sat out because of a sore right shoulder. The Pelicans dropped to 15-42.<\/p>\n<p>              Rollins had 16 points in the first half to help Milwaukee take a 71-65 lead. Williamson had 21 points in the half.<\/p>\n<p>              The Bucks took a 103-96 advantage into the fourth. After the Pelicans cut it to 108-102 on Williamson\u2019s layup, the Bucks pulled away with a 14-4 run. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397233\/pete-nance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Nance<\/a> hit two 3s and a layup during the run.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Bucks: Host Toronto on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>              Pelicans: Host Philadelphia on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              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":"NEW ORLEANS &#8212; \u2014 Ryan Rollins made a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points to help the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-493829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493829","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=493829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}