{"id":482131,"date":"2024-04-20T00:42:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482131"},"modified":"2024-04-20T00:42:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T04:42:52","slug":"pelicans-beat-kings-105-98-in-west-play-in-finale-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pelicans-beat-kings-105-98-in-west-play-in-finale-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans beat Kings 105-98 in West play-in finale in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/brandon-ingram\/\">Brandon Ingram<\/a> notched 24 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jonas-valanciunas\/\">Jonas Valanciunas<\/a> scored 19 and grabbed 12 boards, and the New Orleans Pelicans won against the Sacramento Kings 105-98 at Smoothie King Center to secure their place in the NBA postseason.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans triumphed without leading-scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/zion-williamson\/\">Zion Williamson<\/a>, who sustained a hamstring injury as he reached the 40-point mark in a play-in defeat against the LA Lakers a few days ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DETHRONED. \ud83d\udc51<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneNOLA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OneNOLA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HancockWhitney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HancockWhitney<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0QxlfbWVjM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0QxlfbWVjM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PelicansNBA\/status\/1781535776494285243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans improved to 8-5 this campaign without Zion on the court. Six basketballers notched 10 or more points, including reserves <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/larry-nance-jr\/\">Larry Nance Jr<\/a>., <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/naji-marshall\/\">Naji Marshall<\/a>, and Jose Alvarado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/trey-murphy-iii\/\">Trey Murphy III<\/a>, who replaced Zion in the starting lineup, finished with 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>De&#8217;Aaron Fox notched 35 points for the Kings, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/domantas-sabonis\/\">Domantas Sabonis<\/a> finished with 23 points and 14 boards.<\/p>\n<p>The match was a test for New Orleans after the team squandered 2 previous chances to lock up a postseason berth at their venue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PELS PUNCH THEIR TICKET TO ROUND 1 \ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Game 1 vs. #1 OKC: Sunday, 9:30pm\/et, TNT \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t8eAxEVfuf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/t8eAxEVfuf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1781535709142061257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans improved to 6-0 against the Kings this campaign, becoming the 1<sup>st<\/sup> organization to go 6-0 in a campaign (without a postseason matchup) against an opponent since the Nuggets against the Timber<a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/football\/team\/wolves\/\">Wolves<\/a> in 1994-95.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qw4cZS1Ev7s?si=Efx_ywNXlPRUXedl\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Ingram notched 24 points, and Jonas Valanciunas scored 19 and grabbed 12 boards, and the New Orleans Pelicans won against the Sacramento [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482132,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17204,16941],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18565,17839,1067],"acf":{"announce":"New Orleans defeated Sacramento for the 6th straight time this season.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482133,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482131\/revisions\/482133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482131"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482131"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}