{"id":502784,"date":"2026-03-04T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502784\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:37:11","slug":"lakers-110-101-pelicans-mar-3-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502784\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers 110-101 Pelicans (Mar 3, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Luka Doncic<\/a> had 27 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, LeBron James<\/a> added 21 points and the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> rallied past the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 110-101 Tuesday night for their third straight victory.<\/p>\n

Deandre Ayton<\/a> had 13 points and eight rebounds for the Lakers, who overcame a fourth-quarter deficit and 21 turnovers by scoring 14 straight points down the stretch and finishing on a 24-7 run. Their late surge was led by Doncic and by Austin Reaves<\/a>, who missed his first eight shots of the night before ending up with 15 points.<\/p>\n

Zion Williamson<\/a> scored 24 points in his return from a one-game absence after hurting his ankle<\/a> last Saturday for the Pelicans, who lost for only the second time in six games on the fourth outing of their six-game West Coast trip. Trey Murphy III<\/a> scored 21 points and Saddiq Bey<\/a> had 18.<\/p>\n

New Orleans jumped to an eight-point lead with just over seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, but the Lakers finally awoke and held the Pelicans scoreless over the next 4:18.<\/p>\n

Reaves hit a 3-pointer with 5:04 left to put LA back ahead 96-94, and Marcus Smart<\/a> and Doncic hit clutch 3s in the final two minutes to seal it. Smart had 10 points, seven assists, four steals and three blocked shots in an impressive performance.<\/p>\n

James had seven rebounds and seven assists. He also went 8 of 12 from the field to move within two baskets of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who holds the NBA’s career record for field goals at 15,837.<\/p>\n

Doncic received his 14th technical foul of the season in the second quarter, and he wasn’t whistled for a second despite clapping at a referee to protest a no-call in the final minutes. He’ll be suspended if he gets a 16th T.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pelicans: At Sacramento on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Lakers: At Denver on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Luka Doncic had 27 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, LeBron James added 21…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-502784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502784","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=502784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}