Pelicans have Anthony Davis sit against Lakers

The New Orleans Pelicans hope to have standout power forward Anthony Davis back in the lineup when they visit the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday. “I think we’re going to turn the corner”.

Guard Tyreke Evans had 21 points to lead the Pelicans, who dropped their fourth in a row.

“You just have to decide if you are going to play hard every night and if we want to have a good team”, New Orleans coach Alvin Gentry said. It doesn’t involve soul searching, it involves looking into the mirror and being able to say I gave the best effort that I could tonight and that’s not what we’re getting.

Before the Lakers sent the Pelicans to their fourth consecutive loss, Scott suggested to Bryant that he be “cautious” and not push through his injury just because fans are paying to see him play in his final season. New Orleans should help Anthony Davis as he can not lift the load on his own and his teammates should step-up. Lakers F Kobe Bryant, who missed eight games this season due to injury or rest, was averaging 22.0 points on 47 percent shooting with 4.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds in previous games after sitting out. He’s averaged 25.0 points, 66.3 percent shooting and 3.4 blocks in New Orleans’ five-game winning streak over the Lakers.

Plagued by injury to start the season, the Pelicans are only three games better than the Lakers in the win column which makes Tuesday night’s game even more interesting in terms of the ongoing “to tank, or not to tank.” battle that the Lakers have become all too familiar with.

When a team fails to deliver in the National Basketball Association (NBA), trade deals are sometimes considered helpful to a struggling franchise, and that is what Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak is trying to find. The Pelicans have also won all 11 of their games this season in contests that they’ve eclipsed the century mark. “We did past year, and it was pretty much the same team. He does a lot of everything”.

The Pelicans scored the next 10 points, but the Lakers rallied and eventually went ahead on Williams’ jumper with 1:16 to play.

New Orleans caps its three-game West Coast swing by playing the second game of a back-to-back on Wednesday at Sacramento, where the Pelicans have captured six of the past 10 meetings.

Bass was officially diagnosed with a sore right foot and is questionable for the Lakers’ nationally-televised showdown against the Golden State Warriors on Thursday, per Trudell. Until you play hard, that’s the very first thing that you check off the list. Yasiel Puig, Jack Black and Aziz Ansari attended the game.