{"id":950713,"date":"2026-11-03T05:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950713\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:38:12","slug":"karlo-matkovic-zion-williamson-lead-pelicans-to-win-over-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950713\/","title":{"rendered":"Karlo Matkovic Zion Williamson lead Pelicans to win over Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdsu.com\/news-team\/adf147ed-6f9a-44ef-b3ba-682e70add8f8\" aria-label=\"Fletcher Mackel profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/adf147ed-6f9a-44ef-b3ba-682e70add8f8_1651097418.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Fletcher Mackel\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Croatian big man Karlo Matkovic produced a career game scoring 25 points, grabbing 6 rebounds and helping the New Orleans Pelicans beat the hottest team in the NBA in an overtime thriller.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Pels take down previously unbeaten Memphis 135-134.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">New Orleans is now 3-4 overall, the Grizzles are 6-1.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Zion Williamson scored 25 points and had 11 rebounds to secure his first double-double of the season.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Memphis was led by guard Ty Jerome who scored 40 pints for the Grizzles and nearly single-handedly won the game for his team.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">New Orleans has now won three in a row, they return for two games at home in the Smoothie King center on Wednesday and Friday.  Wednesday night the Utah jazz are in town and on Friday it&#8217;s the Minnesota Timberwolves. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">WDSU will have a more complete game story shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 Croatian big man Karlo Matkovic produced a career game scoring 25 points, grabbing 6 rebounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,297857,39598,517522,517520,517521,517518,733,590,7210,197202,321,10227,1181,85,13060,517519,41313,7226],"class_list":["post-950713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-career-game","tag-friday","tag-grizzles","tag-hot-team","tag-karlo-matkovic-zion-williamson","tag-karlo-matkovics-career-game-leads-pelicans-to-thrilling-overtime-win-over-memphis","tag-memphis","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-overtime-win","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-smoothie-king-center","tag-sports","tag-town","tag-wdsu","tag-wednesday","tag-zion-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950713","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=950713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}