{"id":19214,"date":"2025-10-24T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/19214\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:42:07","slug":"spurs-aim-to-maintain-perfect-start-as-they-face-wounded-pelicans-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/19214\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs aim to maintain perfect start as they face wounded Pelicans in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio visits the New Orleans Pelicans after Victor Wembanyama scored 40 points in the Spurs&#8217; 125-92 victory against the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans finished 21-61 overall, 13-38 in Western Conference action and 14-27 at home during the 2024-25 season. The Pelicans averaged 16.5 points off of turnovers, 15.6 second-chance points and 33.2 bench points last season.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio finished 34-48 overall and 5-11 in Southwest Division play during the 2024-25 season. The Spurs shot 46.5% from the field and 35.7% from 3-point range last season.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs (1-0, first in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (0-1, 11th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans; Friday, 7 p.m. CDT<\/p>\n<p>BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Spurs -1.5; over\/under is 230.5<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES<\/p>\n<p>Pelicans: Kevon Looney: out (knee), Karlo Matkovic: day to day (back), Dejounte Murray: out (leg).<\/p>\n<p>Spurs: De&#8217;Aaron Fox: day to day (hamstring), Kelly Olynyk: day to day (heel), Jeremy Sochan: day to day (wrist), Lindy Waters III: day to day (eye).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio visits the New Orleans Pelicans after Victor Wembanyama scored 40 points in the Spurs&#8217; 125-92 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1770,1140,3080,14706,82,84,83,14707,1594,509,346],"class_list":{"0":"post-19214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-injuries","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-pelicans","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","14":"tag-san-antonio-news","15":"tag-sportsbook","16":"tag-spurs","17":"tag-victor-wembanyama","18":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}