Los Angeles Lakers (22-11, third in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (8-29, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans is looking to end its four-game home skid with a win against Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are 4-22 in conference matchups. New Orleans is the top team in the Western Conference averaging 58.1 points in the paint. Zion Williamson leads the Pelicans with 16.0.<\/p>\n
The Lakers are 17-8 in Western Conference play. Los Angeles is ninth in the Western Conference allowing just 117.3 points while holding opponents to 48.7% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 2.6 percentage points lower than the 48.7% the Lakers allow to opponents. The Lakers are shooting 50.1% from the field, 1.4% higher than the 48.7% the Pelicans’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Lakers won 133-121 in the last matchup on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III is averaging 20.7 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.6 steals for the Pelicans. Jeremiah Fears is averaging 21 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Luka Doncic is scoring 33.7 points per game with 8.1 rebounds and 8.7 assists for the Lakers. Jake Laravia is averaging 26.0 points and 5.0 rebounds while shooting 56.3% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 3-7, averaging 117.8 points, 44.5 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 8.8 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lakers: 5-5, averaging 114.9 points, 41.2 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Herbert Jones: out (ankle), Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Saddiq Bey: out (hip).<\/p>\n
Lakers: Gabe Vincent: out (back), Austin Reaves: out (calf), Adou Thiero: out (knee), Rui Hachimura: out (calf).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers (22-11, third in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (8-29, 15th in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63543,847,48,52,51,47,50,49,7592,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-120594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-63543","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-nba-basketball","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}