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It has now been 717 days since the Pelicans were at .500.

Pelicans vs Pacers 2025-26: PF: 123.5 PA: 118.0 FG%: 51.5 FTA/%: 32.0 (82.8) TOV: 13.5 OppFG%: 47.2 3P/%: 22/58 (38%) Opp 3P/%: 23/85 (27%) Tonight: PF: 120 PA: 123 FG%: 42.7 FTA/%: 37 (91.9) TOV: 14 OppFG%: 52.2 3P/%: 10/30 (33%) Opp 3P/%: 9/30 (30%)

Zion Williamson played 32 minutes and attempted 16 shots from the floor. Games w/ 16 FGA and 32 mins played: 2025-26 - 8 2024-25 - 1 2023-24 - 29 2022-23 - 10 2020-21 - 32 2019-20 - 5

Missi/Queen: 24 rebounds (8 offensive) Bey the only other Pelican w/ 5 Rebs Zion/Trey: 8 boards (2 off) Missi had as many assists as Zion, Trey, and Fears combined (5)

Entertaining loss for the Pelicans, but they lost because of expected reasons. They gave up 30+ in 3 of 4 quarters. Too many live ball turnovers that became transition points. -16 in PITP Lack of interior defense. Only 28 3PA An offense without structure. No surprises.

Hey, @AlexGoldenNBA…playing out pretty close to how I said.

ICYMI: I wrote a thing.

This is Yves Missi’s 9th career game with at least 10 rebounds and 3 blocks.

Just a reminder that Yves Missi had a 130.8 offensive rating and a +28.1 net rating in the preseason. Missi doesn’t always look pretty doing what he does, but he’s more effective than you think.

In his three previous games with multiple threes, Zion posted averages of 27.6 pts, 7.3 reb, 4.3 ast, and 1.0 steals. At the half, Z has 15 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast, and 2 steals.

This is Zion Williamson’s fourth career game with 2+ three-pointers made. 1/22/20: 4 vs Spurs 11/7/22: 2 vs Pacers 12/11/22: 2 vs Suns 10/21/26: 2 vs Pacers

Only 12 points allowed by the Pelicans in the 2nd quarter on 4-of-18 shooting with 90 seconds to go in the half.

Dejounte Murray now has 4+ turnovers for the 19th time in 46 games (41.3%) with New Orleans. In his last full season with the Hawks, he turned it over 4 or more times in only 18 of 78 games (23.1%).