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Healthy Davis guides Pelicans past Trail Blazers
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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
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Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony roll to the baskets or anything like
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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
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Trail Blazers.
halftime advantage. Tyreke
Davis had 28 points
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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
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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
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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
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5-14 away from home this season.
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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
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PELICANS CONTINUE WITH
OFFENSIVE
REBOUNDING
WOES
New Orleans entered Wednesday
night’s game against Portland
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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.
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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-
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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.
Behrens said the league’s
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in line with other community
service initiatives such as the
White House’s My Brother’s
Keeper program.
“You need to raise aware-
ness and you need to do it in a
way that makes people realize
there is something that they
can do, and that’s really how
the spot ends,” she said. “We
can do something about this
and that’s the point. If we can
then we should.”
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