{"id":206941,"date":"2026-03-06T06:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206941\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:57:13","slug":"zion-williamson-scores-23-as-pelicans-beat-kings-133-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206941\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson scores 23 as Pelicans beat Kings 133-123"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zion Williamson had 23 points on 10-for-14 shooting, Trey Murphy III added 21 points and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the NBA-worst Sacramento Kings 133-123 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Saddiq Bey shot 6 for 11 (3 for 5 from 3-point range) and 5 of 6 from the free-throw line for 20 points for the Pelicans, who had lost two in a row after a four-game win streak.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson added nine rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Precious Achiuwa had 29 points and 12 rebounds and Russell Westbrook had 19 points and 10 assists for the Kings, who fell to 14-50 overall and lost their ninth in a row at home. They have lost three in a row and are 2-4 following a franchise-worst 16-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans entered halftime up 67-61. The Pelicans took a 14-point lead in the third quarter thanks to a 15-0 scoring run.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans made 12 3-pointers compared to the Kings eight.<\/p>\n<p>All-Star point guard Dejounte Murray (return to competition reconditioning) did not play for the first game of a back-to-back (New Orleans plays at Phoenix on Friday).<\/p>\n<p>Kings forward Keegan Murray missed his fourth straight game because of ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>DeMar DeRozan kad 15 points to move into 19th place on the NBA&#8217;s career scoring leaders list.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Pelicans: Visit the Phoenix Suns on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Host the Chicago Bulls on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson had 23 points on 10-for-14 shooting, Trey Murphy III added 21 points and the New Orleans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,128,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-206941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-kings","11":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206941","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=206941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}