{"id":534104,"date":"2026-03-20T04:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534104\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:38:07","slug":"pelicans-pull-off-mini-sweep-of-clippers-who-have-lost-four-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534104\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans pull off mini-sweep of Clippers, who have lost four straight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEW ORLEANS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Trey Murphy III scored 27 points and the New Orleans Pelicans extended their home winning streak to seven games with a 105-99 victory<\/a> over the Clippers<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Saddiq Bey had 20 points and Zion Williamson added 15 for the Pelicans, who swept the two-game set against the Clippers after a 124-109 win<\/a>, also at home, on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Dejounte Murray was held out to rest as part of his comeback from a ruptured Achilles tendon. He had 17 points and a season-high 11 assists Wednesday night in his ninth game since making his season debut last month.<\/p>\n

Derrick Jones Jr. scored 22 points, John Collins had 18 and Bogdan Bogdanovic added 16 for the Clippers, who lost their fourth in a row<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard sat out a night after scoring 25 points and grabbing eight rebounds in his return from a one-game absence because of a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans trailed 94-91 with 5:53 after Collins\u2019 floater, but Williamson made a layup and Murphy hit a three-pointer to put New Orleans up for good as it closed with a 14-5 run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Trey Murphy III scored 27 points and the New Orleans Pelicans extended their home winning streak to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[155495,7630,5460,2976,25173,90506,239801,355,6932,83932,13544,162352,239802,99,50306,55320,29771],"class_list":["post-534104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-clipper","tag-clippers","tag-game","tag-home","tag-john-collins","tag-layup","tag-min-sweep","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-pelican","tag-point","tag-saddiq-bey","tag-season-debut-last-month","tag-sports","tag-thursday-night","tag-wednesday-night","tag-zion-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534104","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=534104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}