{"id":757641,"date":"2026-07-12T00:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/757641\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:43:13","slug":"pelicans-end-12-game-summer-league-losing-streak-with-comeback-win-over-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/757641\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans end 12-game summer league losing streak with comeback win over Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; The Pelicans overcame an 18-point deficit to defeat the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday afternoon, 95-91. The victory marked the team\u2019s first summer league victory since 2023, ending a 12-game losing streak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Second-year Pelican Hunter Dickinson led the team with 21 points. Kobe Bufkin, who put up 30 points in a loss to the Timberwolves on Thursday, finished with 19 points and a team-high six rebounds against the Hornets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Led by summer league coach God Shammgod, the Pelicans outscored the Hornets 30-15 in the fourth quarter to secure the comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pelicans will be back in action Sunday afternoon to take on the Phoenix Suns. The game will be broadcast live on the Gulf Coast Sports &amp; Entertainment Network at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/07\/11\/pelicans-end-12-game-summer-league-losing-streak-with-comeback-win-over-hornets\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; The Pelicans overcame an 18-point deficit to defeat the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[15755,22488,355,6099,6307,99],"class_list":["post-757641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-charlotte","tag-hornets","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-pelicans","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757641","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=757641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}