The New Orleans Pelicans had a respectable run in the 2024 NBA Playoffs. The Pelicans were swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night with a 97-89 Game 4 loss.
With the Thunder clinging to a three-point lead late in Game 4, Jalen Williams put the team on his back.
The Pelicans have had trouble finding offense against the Thunder's defense throughout the Western Conference first-round series. In Game 4, they found some of it from an unlikely source.
With 2019 No. 1 pick Zion Williamson sidelined by a hamstring injury, the New Orleans Pelicans have been strained trying to overcome his absence. In 2023-24, Williamson averaged 22.9 points , 5.0 assists, and 1.1 steals per game.
Charles Barkley got into hot water for his comments on Beyonce’s hometown of Galveston, Texas, but immediately retracted the statement he made following the New Orleans Pelicans’ loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 3 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs.
Oklahoma City Thunder and New Orleans Pelicans will face each other in Game 4 of the NBA Playoffs Round 1 on Monday, April 29, starting at 8:30 PM ET in the Smoothie King Center.
Action Network's NBA experts share best bets for today, including six picks for the NBA Playoffs on Monday, April 29.
Without Zion Williamson, the New Orleans Pelicans are slowly losing their steam against Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma CityThunder. As a result, NBA legend Charles Barkley blasts the Pels with a funny take that makes too much sense.
As the Pelicans are down 0-3 to the Thunder, questions are beginning to swirl around Brandon Ingram’s future with the team. Ingram is a 2025 free agent and declined an extension with the Pelicans before the season.
Charles Barkley has decreed that the New Orleans Pelicans are not allowed to go to Cancun when their barely-there playoff showing is over.
For fans of the New Orleans Pelicans, Saturday’s Game 3 was nothing short of disastrous. they disintegrated in their first-round NBA playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, suffering a crushing 106-85 defeat that put them at a daunting 3-0 series disadvantage.
It was always going to be hard for the eighth-seeded New Orleans Pelicans to upset the first-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the playoffs.
No team has ever won an NBA Playoffs series after going three games to none. This is the reality that the New Orleans Pelicans now have to face or something they could put to reset by defying all odds.
The New Orleans Pelicans fell 106-85 to the Oklahoma City Thunder and now find themselves in a 3-0 series deficit in their NBA Playoffs first round matchup.
Zion Williamson is currently dealing with a hamstring injury he sustained during the play-in tournament.
The top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder had to battle to the buzzer to win their Western Conference first-round series opener against the New Orleans Pelicans.
Former NBA guard Norris Cole has agreed to a contract with Osos de Manati of Puerto Rico, the team announced. Cole, 35, spent this past season playing for the now-defunct G League Ignite.
Chris Baker of the Action Network breaks down his Pelicans vs. Thunder Game 2 predictions and picks in his NBA Playoffs betting preview for Wednesday, April 24.
One NBA writer proposed that the Miami Heat acquire Brandon Ingram from the New Orleans Pelicans this summer. Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report likes Ingram’s fit on the Heat. “When scanning the list of potential South Beach targets, New Orleans Pelicans swingman Brandon Ingram comes to mind,” Buckley wrote.
Williamson added that he has to “pass certain tests” in order to ramp up his basketball activity.
The New Orleans Pelicans have been the Sacramento Kings’ worst nightmare this season.
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