{"id":582773,"date":"2026-04-03T11:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:27:10","slug":"trail-blazers-118-106-pelicans-3-apr-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582773\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers 118-106 Pelicans (3 Apr, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. — \u2014 Jrue Holiday<\/a> had 27 points, including seven 3-pointers, and the Trail Blazers downed the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 118-106 on Thursday night with Portland’s new owners looking on. <\/p>\n

Deni Avdija<\/a> added 26 points for the Blazers, who have won three straight and eight of their last 10 games. Toumani Camara<\/a> finished with 23 points. <\/p>\n

Jeremiah Fears<\/a> had 21 points off the bench for the Pelicans, who have lost 11 of their last 12 games. <\/p>\n

After trailing at the half, the Blazers went up 106-96 on Holiday’s 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

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’d have to win one game to advance to the playoffs, whereas in ninth, they’d have to win two. <\/p>\n

Members of the Blazers’ 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

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

The Pelicans went up 48-39 in the first half but Portland closed the gap with a pair of 3-pointers from Scoot Henderson<\/a> and Avdija that made it 60-57. The Pelicans led 64-60 at the break. <\/p>\n

Matisse Thybulle<\/a> 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

Up next <\/p>\n

The Pelicans visit the Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers visit the Nuggets on Monday. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. — \u2014 Jrue Holiday had 27 points, including seven 3-pointers, and the Trail Blazers downed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-582773","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\/582773","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=582773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}