Philadelphia 76ers (30-25, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (15-42, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia is looking to break its three-game skid with a win against New Orleans.<\/p>\n
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The Pelicans have gone 9-21 at home. New Orleans is 6-19 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n
The 76ers are 15-10 on the road. Philadelphia ranks seventh in the Eastern Conference with 16.2 fast break points per game led by Tyrese Maxey averaging 5.4.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans average 11.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.9 fewer makes per game than the 76ers allow (13.0). The 76ers average 12.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.9 fewer made shots on average than the 14.6 per game the Pelicans give up.<\/p>\n
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The two teams match up for the second time this season. The 76ers defeated the Pelicans 124-114 in their last matchup on Feb. 1. Joel Embiid led the 76ers with 40 points, and Saddiq Bey led the Pelicans with 34 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Zion Williamson is shooting 58.9% and averaging 21.9 points for the Pelicans. Bey is averaging 20.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
VJ Edgecombe is averaging 15 points, 5.5 rebounds, four assists and 1.5 steals for the 76ers. Maxey is averaging 26.8 points and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 45.3% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 4-6, averaging 112.7 points, 43.3 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
76ers: 6-4, averaging 115.5 points, 41.4 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Yves Missi: out (calf), Trey Murphy III: out (shoulder), Micah Peavy: out (toe), Dejounte Murray: out (achilles).<\/p>\n
76ers: Joel Embiid: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers (30-25, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (15-42, 14th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,120928,23934,1526,93818,459,2694,8214,1518,1528,96762,8219,82,20997,93817,76758,19746,9769,10627,118249,8227],"class_list":["post-489848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dejounte-murray","tag-eastern-conference","tag-joel-embiid","tag-micah-peavy","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-points-per-game","tag-saddiq-bey","tag-sports","tag-the-76ers","tag-the-pelicans","tag-trey-murphy-iii","tag-tyrese-maxey","tag-vj-edgecombe","tag-western-conference","tag-yves-missi","tag-zion-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489848","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=489848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}