Portland Trail Blazers (9-15, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (3-22, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Trail Blazers -5.5; over\/under is 237.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans hosts Portland looking to stop its four-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n The Pelicans are 1-19 against Western Conference opponents. New Orleans has a 1-10 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers are 7-10 in Western Conference play. Portland has a 4-5 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n The Pelicans average 11.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 fewer makes per game than the Trail Blazers give up (12.5). The Trail Blazers’ 44.2% shooting percentage from the field this season is 5.6 percentage points lower than the Pelicans have given up to their opponents (49.8%).<\/p>\n The teams play for the second time this season. The Trail Blazers won the last matchup 125-117 on Nov. 13, with Shaedon Sharpe scoring 35 points in the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III is shooting 47.7% and averaging 21.0 points for the Pelicans. Jose Alvarado is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Deni Avdija is averaging 25.8 points, 7.2 rebounds and 6.3 assists for the Trail Blazers. Jerami Grant is averaging 21 points and seven rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 1-9, averaging 119.2 points, 42.9 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 126.1 points per game.<\/p>\n Trail Blazers: 3-7, averaging 112.7 points, 48.7 rebounds, 23.6 assists, 7.0 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 42.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.0 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Pelicans: Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Zion Williamson: out (abductor), Jordan Poole: day to day (quad).<\/p>\n Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Robert Williams III: out (illness), Jrue Holiday: day to day (calf), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Donovan Clingan: day to day (leg), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers (9-15, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (3-22, 15th in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[171126,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-340696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-171126","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}