{"id":301031,"date":"2025-11-23T04:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301031\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T04:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:40:14","slug":"kristaps-porzingis-scores-29-as-atlanta-hawks-hand-new-orleans-pelicans-ninth-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301031\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristaps Porzingis scores 29 as Atlanta Hawks hand New Orleans Pelicans ninth straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> scored 29 points and Vit Krejci<\/a> added 21 off the bench on seven 3-pointers to propel the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> to a 115-98 victory over the skidding New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Jalen Johnson<\/a> had 18 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists for the Hawks, who stopped a two-game skid and won for the eighth time in 11 road games. Dyson Daniels<\/a>, drafted in the first round by the Pelicans in 2022, provided 14 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n

Playing its fifth game in seven nights, New Orleans lost its ninth straight overall and fell to 2-15 this season.<\/p>\n

Porzingis shot 11 of 17 from the field and Krejci went 7 for 10 from 3-point range. <\/p>\n

Atlanta overcame a sluggish start by outscoring the Pelicans 67-45 over the second and third quarters to erase an early deficit.<\/p>\n

Johnson scored nine consecutive points to spark a 15-4 run that put the Hawks up 42-36 in the second.<\/p>\n

Johnson had 11 points and Porzingis scored 14 in the quarter. Atlanta turned up its defensive pressure, forcing seven Pelicans turnovers in the period and outscoring them 35-21 to build a 56-46 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

Because Zion Williamson<\/a> sat out the second night of a back-to-back to rest his left hamstring and Herb Jones missed his first game of the season with a back injury, the Pelicans started three rookies for the first time this season: Derik Queen<\/a>, Jeremiah Fears<\/a> and Micah Peavy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Queen averaged 25 points over the previous two games and finished with 20 this time. Fears added 11 points on 5-of-13 shooting.<\/p>\n

Trey Murphy III<\/a> had 19 points and Saddiq Bey<\/a> scored 18 for the Pelicans.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Hawks: Host the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Pelicans: Host the Chicago Bulls<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Kristaps Porzingis scored 29 points and Vit Krejci added 21 off the bench on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}