New Orleans-Keon Ellis scored seven 3 points in a performance of 27 points, Zach Lavine scored 20 of his 23 points in the second half, and the Sacramento Kings defeated the New Orleans Pelicans 119-111 on Wednesday evening.

Demar Derozan scored 24 points and Malik Monk added 17 for the Kings, which in the last five minutes with an 11: 2 run with Lavines 3 broke a tight game and ended with Derozan’s 16-foot turn.

Domantas Sabonis had 16 points and 15 beemandsin 48. Double double in 51 games this season for Sacramento, which won three in a row.

Zion Williamson scored 33 points and scored nine rebounds for the pelicans who have lost 10 for the second time this season.

Trey Murphy III. Scored 19 points, Jose Alvarado added 18 and CJ McCollum 14 for the pelicans, which were competitive for the majority of a game with 13 leadership changes and 12 ties before it was late.

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Kings: Sacramento won even though he was exceeded 70-40 in the color. The Kings exceeded New Orleans 48-40, shot better from the outside and exceeded New Orleans 21-15 from the foul line

Pelicans: Bruce Brown was the first reserve from the bank in his debut for New Orleans. He scored four points in 26 minutes. The newly acquired Center Kelly Olynyk did not play. The Karlo Matkovic reserve center hit out after only 15 minutes.

Key moment

Shortly after Rookie Antonio Reeves’ Corner 3 pulled the pelicans to 104-102 on the left, Lavine reacted with his 3 from the right wing to ignite the decisive run of the kings.

Key

Sacramento shot 16 for 45 (35.6%) from the 3-point range, while New Orleans only went 8 out of 32 (25%) from Deep.

Next on

The teams meet again in New Orleans on Thursday. ——–

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