Highlights: New Orleans Pelicans 124-90 Portland Trail Blazers in NBA

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Blazers 90-124 Pelicans.

Pelicans with 10 points in a row in the final stretch, having 36 points more.

Blazers with a sequence of eight points, reducing the distance to 24 points.

Blazers are 28 points down at this point in the game.

Teams return exchanging points.

Blazers 55-89 Pelicans.

Pelicans are 34 points higher at this point.

The streak now went to the Pelicans with nine points. Visiting team has 32 points more.

Another Blazers streak, now seven points.

Pelicans reacts, scores nine points in a row and again has a large advantage on the scoreboard.

Blazers start closing the gap to the Pelicans, but it's still big.

Blazers 35-58 Pelicans.

Pelicans with eight-point sequence, returning the race and opening 27 points in the final stretch of the first half.

Blazers with eight points in a row to narrow the gap to 14.

Pelicans have 18 more points in the game.

Blazers came back better and more active on offense.

Blazers 14-34 Pelicans.

Pelicans follows better in the match and opens 15 points more.

Pelicans open eight-point lead.

Pelicans with four more points in the game.

Pelicans started better and opened four more points.

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PG - CJ McCollum
SG - Trey Murphy
SF - Herbert Jones
PF - Brandon Ingram
C - Jonas Valanciunas.

PG - Damian Lillard
SF - Cam Raddish
SF - Anfernee Simons
PF - Jerami Grant
C - Jusuf Nurkic.

"What I love most are the extra effort plays he makes - an offensive rebound here, a defensive rebound here and there," Billups said later. "I know he can shoot. He's one of the best shooters on our team, so it was nice to see him really go."

"When guys go down, there are more opportunities," Little said. "So whatever situation the manager puts me in, you just take advantage of it. My mindset needs to change - they're going to need me to score a little bit more and it's something I'm capable of doing so I don't feel like I'm trying to show something they don't know I can do."

"I just see his confidence building up," Ingram said after the win in Los Angeles. "He's the best marksman on the team."

"Trey hit the ball," said Pelicans coach Willie Green. "And it was nice to see him take shot after shot after shot. He's capable, our team is capable, and that's the standard we want to play to."

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  the main name of the Blazers in the season. The point guard has an average of 32.2 points per game.

PG - Damian Lillard

SF - Cam Raddish

SF - Anfernee Simons

PF - Jerami Grant

C - Jusuf Nurkic.

The Blazers arrive for the confrontation with a negative campaign in the season with 41 losses and 32 victories, being a bad score in the last duel.

  the great highlight of the Pelicans in the season. The wing averages 23.9 points per game.

PG - CJ McCollum

SG - Trey Murphy

SF - Herbert Jones

PF - Brandon Ingram

C - Jonas Valanciunas.

The Pelicans arrive for the confrontation with a campaign of 37 wins and 37 losses in the regular season, with four straight triumphs.

NBA!

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is the national basketball league in the United States, with 30 teams divided into two groups, separated by the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference. The league was founded on June 6, 1946, as the BAA (Basketball Association of America), but three years later it merged with the NBL (National Basketball League), becoming the NBA we know today.

The first winner was the Los Angeles Lakers, who amended four titles in a row with an initial dynasty in the league. It was only stopped by the Golden State Warriors, and soon after by the Baltimore Bullets.

Today, the Lakers, along with the Boston Celtics, are the biggest winners in the NBA, with 17 titles each. Golden State Warriors appear soon after with seven, where they got another dynasty in the league with Curry, Klay Thomspon, Kevin Durant and Draymond Green.
The league also divides the awards by sectors. The most valuable is MVP, where they elect the best athlete in the league based only on the regular season. Right after that, there are awards for best trainer, best executive, sixth man, rookie and several others. Currently, the player with the most MVP awards is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with six. Next, Michael Jordan has five, along with Bill Russell. LeBron James, still active, has four awards.

The current league champions are the Golden State Warriors, where they defeated the Boston Celtics 4-2 in the decision. The Warriors finished third in the Western Conference, passing the Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies and Dallas Mavericks in the postseason, to win the tournament. Center Nikola Jokić is the current MVP of the season, where he won for the second time in a row. Stephen Curry, Warriors point guard, is the current Finals MVP.

The current season has great teams like Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat and Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference, while Phoenix Suns, Memphis Girzzlies, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers dispute the best positions in the Western Conference. Still, there are teams that are favorites to go further, such as the Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks, Portland Trail Blazers and LeBron James' Los Angeles Lakers.

Finally, big stars are candidates for the MVP award, such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Kevin Durant, Ja Morant, Stephen Curry, Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic and LeBron James.

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