Zion Williamson led the New Orleans Pelicans with 26 points, 6 assists, and 4 rebounds as New Orleans defeated Denver Nuggets , 115-110. Jonas Valanciunas (22 points, 8 rebounds) and Brandon Ingram (21 points, 8 assists) totaled 43 points. Nikola Jokic led Denver with 26 points, 18 assists, and 16 rebounds as Christian Braun added a career-high 25 points, along with 9 rebounds. The Pelicans improve to 6-6 in the regular season and 2-1 in West Group B play as the Nuggets move to 9-3 and 2-1.
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That block by Zion at 6:44๐ฎ
I like the rookie Jordan Hawkins. The brother can shoot
Zion is the MVP of this league. Truly generational. He will be the the #1 player in this league by the trade deadline.
People seems so easy to forget, Pels were the first seed last season W/O BI until Zion went down. Not saying or assuming Pels gonna win a series against Nuggets last year, but they're a bad match up, they'll give nuggets a run for their money.
CJ(Veteran shooting guard, great playmaking, shot creator)
Herb(great perimeter deferender, moves without the ball, tall player for his position 6'7 at shooting guard)
BI(shot creator, can playmake for his teammates)
Zion(He's Zion)
Valanciunas(Great post up player, great rebounder)
Trey Murphy(tall, athletic, great 3 point shooter, moves without the ball, shot creator, he's like an inch taller version of BI)
Alvarado(pesky pointguard defender, playmaker, can hit outside shots, hustle player, kinda like pat bev)
Naji(great scorer on all three levels)
Dyson Daniels(tall pg, great playmaker, great defender, he's lonzo ball with shot confidence)
Larry Nance (We know who he is)
With a great coach(Willie), great depth and a great system plus all the excellent pelicans rookie this year, they'll make some deep run in the PO considering they're all healthy.
Zion and Jokic might have the best touch in the NBA
Letโs go baby๐ that court and uniโs are insane letโs get it!
This team has the most potential in the nba
Great game. Zion still needs to get more shots, His midrange/in game is elite.
Yes they almost blew a 20 point lead but emphasis on almost. Lots of key players sfill hurt and they gutted out a in season home tourney win against the defending Champs. That is a HUGE early season victory. FLOCK UP
whats with these disgusting distracting ass courts???? stop trying to fix whats not broken… new ball… colored floors??? shits stupid
This was Jokic's worse game of his two against the Pelicans this season. He's averaging 32/15/15 against them.
Pels looking pretty good. But it wouldn't have been close at the jokers house
DA REAL GEE MONEY INDUSTRY
Pelicans announcer is a yapper
Cameraman always focusing on Valenciunas as if heโs Kelce
wow
Ngl I'm having a hard time tracking the ball on that court.
Huge win for planet fitness
That kid Brown was KILLING New Orleans! Impressive game from both ends.
Jokic and Gordon no match for Zion.
everyone had zion under lmao and he went crazy
Jokic is a one way player who can't stay in front of his man. Anytime he plays someone as big as he is. And yall think he would dominate in the 90s he would get destroyed he would run home and play with his little hoses.
Good way and pelicans but damn do anybody play defense these days. Sometimes these games look like a boring ass All-Star game
Need Murray
Oh wow Zion actually playing this season
Those colors are effing up my vision, let Adam Silver watch this
Christian Bruan tho!!!
Man, that Braun kid is pretty good. Denver really has a solid team!
NOLA on the rise!!!
Nuggets erased a 20pt deficit, I didn't get why Jokic got impatient over a 5pt lead with 12sec remaining on that last possession.
Herb making his money's worth, he's been a monster over last few wins.
Refs were trying their hardest to get the pelicans back in tha game
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YALL REMEMBER when the PELS HAD A 20 POINT LEAD in this very game and nearly BLEW IT?????
The Pelicans will win the championship. The Nuggets defense is too weak primarily because Jokic is a terrible defender.
Pelicans slowly but surely back in the top ๐ช๐ฅ๐ช
Joker with the eye-popping monstrous numbers!
Healthy Pelicans are different!
Anyone else hate the new courts ๐ค
I usually comment on the games, but this court is hideous
Jamal makes difference
Nikolaa
I'm starting to come around to believing Shaq when he calls Joker "the best big man in the game, BY FAR."