{"id":506757,"date":"2026-03-06T06:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506757\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:52:07","slug":"pelicans-133-123-kings-mar-5-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506757\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans 133-123 Kings (Mar 5, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 Zion Williamson<\/a> had 23 points on 10-for-14 shooting, Trey Murphy III<\/a> added 21 points and the New Orelans Pelicans beat the NBA-worst Sacramento Kings<\/a> 133-123 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Saddiq Bey<\/a> 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

Williamson added nine rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n

Precious Achiuwa<\/a> had 29 points and 12 rebounds and Russell Westbrook<\/a> 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

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

The Pelicans made 12 3-pointers compared to the Kings eight.<\/p>\n

All-Star point guard Dejounte Murray<\/a> (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

Kings forward Keegan Murray<\/a> missed his fourth straight game because of ankle injury.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan<\/a> kad 15 points to move into 19th place on the NBA\u2019s career scoring leaders list.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pelicans: Visit the Phoenix Suns<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Kings: Host the Chicago Bulls<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/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":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 Zion Williamson had 23 points on 10-for-14 shooting, Trey Murphy III added 21 points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-506757","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\/506757","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=506757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}