{"id":358946,"date":"2025-12-21T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358946\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:34:09","slug":"zion-williamson-ties-season-high-as-new-orleans-pelicans-beat-indiana-pacers-for-fourth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358946\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson ties season high as New Orleans Pelicans beat Indiana Pacers for fourth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Zion Williamson<\/a> came off the bench for the third consecutive game and matched his season high with 29 points as the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> beat the Indiana Pacers<\/a> 128-109 on Saturday night for their season-high fourth straight win.<\/p>\n

Williamson, who did not play during the fourth quarter and overtime of the Pelicans\u2019 133-128 victory over Houston on Thursday, scored 18 points in the first half as the Pelicans raced to a 64-49 lead. Williamson made 9 of 14 shots from the floor and 11 of 13 free throws and grabbed seven rebounds.<\/p>\n

Saddiq Bey<\/a> scored 18 points, Trey Murphy III<\/a> and Derik Queen<\/a> each had 17 and Jordan Poole<\/a> 16 for New Orleans. Queen also had 10 rebounds. The New Orleans reserves accounted for a season-high 66 points.<\/p>\n

Pascal Siakam<\/a> scored 22 points to lead the Pacers. Johnny Furphy<\/a> had 18 and T.J. McConnell<\/a> 16 as Indiana lost its fourth in row.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans scored 44 points in the first quarter for their best opening period of the season. They did it on the strength of 61% shooting (17 for 28) and 11 assists. Williamson, who has been coming off the bench since returning from a hip adductor injury, led the surge with 10 points in the first as New Orleans took a 44-27 lead.<\/p>\n

Helped by six New Orleans turnovers, the Pacers scored 14 of the first 16 points of the second quarter to cut the deficit to 46-41, but the Pelicans outscored Indiana 18-8 to take the 15-point halftime lead.<\/p>\n

The loss delayed Rick Carlisle\u2019s run to his 1,000th NBA head coaching victory. The Pacers have lost four straight since beating the Sacramento Kings<\/a> 116-105 on Dec. 8, and Carlisle stands at 999 victories over 24 seasons.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Pacers: At Boston on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Pelicans: Host Dallas on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Zion Williamson came off the bench for the third consecutive game and matched his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358946","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\/358946","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=358946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}