{"id":489090,"date":"2026-02-21T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489090\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:44:08","slug":"bucks-beat-pelicans-for-third-straight-victory-and-sixth-in-seven-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489090\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks beat Pelicans for third straight victory and sixth in seven games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Ryan Rollins made a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points to help the Milwaukee Bucks beat the New Orleans Pelicans 139-118 on Friday night for their third straight victory and sixth in seven games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Playing without injured star Giannis Antetokounmpo, 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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Bucks newcomer Cam Thomas, 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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Zion Williamson 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 class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">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. Pete Nance hit two 3s and a layup during the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bucks: Host Toronto on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pelicans: Host Philadelphia on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \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":489091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-489090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489090","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=489090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}