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SPORTS Thursday, December 24, 2015 East Oregonian Page 3B NBA Healthy Davis guides Pelicans past Trail Blazers SHUFHQWVKRRWLQJRYHUWKH¿QDOWKUHH quarters. “I thought we were good at just NEW ORLEANS — Two days being solid defensively,” Pelicans after needing four IVs to overcome coach Alvin Gentry said. “We DQ LOOQHVV DQG ¿QLVK D JDPH 1HZ didn’t have the breakdowns or the Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony roll to the baskets or anything like 'DYLV GLGQ¶W QHHG DQ\ H[WUD ÀXLGV that. Hopefully it’s another step to dominate an opponent on in the consistency of what we’re trying to do.” Wednesday night. The game, however, turned with With Davis healthy and recov- ered, the Pelicans rolled to a 115-89 PLQXWHV WR SOD\ LQ WKH ¿UVW KDOI when New Orleans turned a victory over the Portland WZRSRLQWOHDGLQWRD Trail Blazers. halftime advantage. Tyreke Davis had 28 points (YDQV ZKR ¿QLVKHG ZLWK and 12 rebounds and New Portland 24 points, nine rebounds Orleans won for the second and eight assists, had eight straight game, only the points and two steals to key second time this season it has the game-changing run. won back-to-back games. The Pelicans, mean- More importantly, the Pelicans improved to .500 New Orleans while, got hot from 3-point range to help at home and have gone 8-8 extend the lead. After after starting the season starting the game 2 of 1-11. 14 from beyond the arc, “We could have a lot more wins,” Davis said. “We gave some New Orleans went 10 for 15. Jrue games away. Some games we didn’t Holiday, Ryan Anderson and Eric even show up to play. I think we’re Gordon combined for nine of the 12 3-pointers. Holiday had 19 points heading back in the right direction.” The Pelicans did it unconven- while Ryan Anderson added 13. “We never were really able to WLRQDOO\ IRU WKHP SOD\LQJ VWLÀLQJ get back into it,” Portland coach defense. Despite being last in the league Terry Stotts said. “They got off to in points allowed per game (107.8) a good start in the third quarter and and next-to-last in opponent’s we were into too big of a hole. We ¿HOG JRDO SHUFHQWDJH 1HZ struggled offensively most of the Orleans held the Blazers to 30 night shooting the ball.” New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis (23) drives to the basket against Portland Trail Blazers forward Meyers Leon- ard (11) during the second half of an NBA basket- ball game Wednes- day, Dec. 23, 2015, in New Orleans. The Peli- cans won 115-89. By BRADLEY HANDWERGER Associated Press 89 115 rebounds against his former team. ... Portland lost in spite of outre- bounding New Orleans 58-49. Pelicans: The other time the Pelicans won back-to-back was in a three-game winning streak from Nov. 22-25. PORTLAND’S ROAD SLUMP Portland hasn’t found much success away from the Moda Center this season. Including Wednesday night’s loss, the Trail Blazers have ORVW¿YHVWUDLJKWRQWKHURDGDQGDUH 5-14 away from home this season. :HGQHVGD\ DOVR HQGHG D ¿YH game road trip for Portland, one in which it lost every game. The last time the Trail Blazers lost every time it played on a road trip of at OHDVW ¿YH JDPHV ZDV )HE 3RUWODQG¿QLVKHGWKDWVHDVRQ 5-34 on the road PELICANS CONTINUE WITH OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING WOES New Orleans entered Wednesday night’s game against Portland DYHUDJLQJ D IUDQFKLVHZRUVW offensive rebounds per game. New Orleans’ lowest average for a full season is 9.8 in 2008-09. Wednesday night’s effort didn’t exactly help get the Pelicans back on track. New Orleans recorded only eight offensive boards, with Davis picking up three. Only Atlanta is worse, averaging 8.2 entering Wednesday’s games. AP Photo/Jona- than Bachman C.J. McCollum had 19 points and seven assists to lead Portland, which was without Damian Lillard for the second time this season. Allen Crabbe scored 12 points starting in place of Lillard, who has plantar fasciitis in his left foot. TIP-INS Trail Blazers: Al-Farouq Aminu scored 10 points and had eight NBA stars support campaign to end gun violence in new spot By BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press NEW YORK — Stephen Curry heard about a shooting involving a 3-year-old girl over the summer. “My daughter Riley is that age,” he said. That begins a public service announcement that debuts on Christmas and features four NBA stars lending their voices to the campaign to end gun violence. Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Joakim Noah also are featured in the spot in support of Everytown for Gun Safety, the nation’s largest violence prevention organization in the country. “The gun should never be an option,” Anthony says in the spot https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=lP- F=RI)KFWKDWZLOODLUGXULQJ the league’s heavily viewed holiday schedule. President Barack Obama, in a tweet while on vacation in Hawaii, said he was proud of the NBA for “taking a stand against gun violence. Sympathy for victims isn’t enough — change requires all of us speaking up.” Director and basketball fan Spike Lee is a member of Everytown’s creative council and worked to get the league and its players involved in what Jason Rzepka, the group’s director of cultural engage- ment, calls a “new high-water mark for our work.” “I think (Lee) sensed and saw that our guys were feeling that same passion that he had and he reached out to Adam (Silver) and said I want to do something about this and I think we should do it together, and we thought it was a good idea,” said Kathy Behrens, the NBA’s president of social responsibility and player programs. “The guys really wanted to kind of put their voices behind this, and so we like the way it’s come together and I think the guys speak very passionately about the issue of trying to end gun violence, trying to make their communities stronger and safer for families.” The players are joined during the 32-second spot by survivors of gun violence and others who are holding pictures of loved ones who were killed. “We could not be more thrilled about this as a plat- form to be able to reach new audiences, to continue to focus the country’s attention on the fact that 88 Americans die as a result of gun violence each day,” Rzepka said. The project came together within the last month, and Behrens said more players would have wanted to be involved if they had more time. Even so, Rzepka said the organization never had such involvement from professional athletes, calling it “pretty remarkable to have survivors of gun violence standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the biggest stars.” “Oftentimes, the stories of the everyday Americans who deal with this issue in a profound way because they’ve lost someone they love to gun violence, those stories often go untold,” Rzepka said. The spot ends with the voice of Curry, whose daughter charmed fans during Golden State’s playoff run, saying, “We can end gun violence.” The Bulls’ Noah, in Chicago, and Anthony, in his hometown of Baltimore, have been particularly vocal about making their cities safer. 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