Jalen Johnson (1) of the Atlanta Hawks dunks on Jamal Cain (8) within the second quarter of an NBA basketball game on November 4, 2024 in Recent Orleans. (AP Foto/Matthew Hinton)
NEW ORLEANS — Jalen Johnson scored 29 points and the Atlanta Hawks snapped a four-game skid with a 126-111 victory over the short-handed Recent Orleans Pelicans on Sunday night.
Pelicans star forward Zion Williamson was scratched from the lineup with right hamstring tightness shortly before the sport, leaving Brandon Ingram because the club’s only usual starter in uniform.
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Ingram scored 32, but it surely wasn’t enough to beat a Hawks squad with six players with not less than 11 points.
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JALEN JOHNSON LEADS THE WAY FOR ATLANTA 🔥
29 PTS (ties profession high)
9 REB
8 AST
2 STL
2 BLK pic.twitter.com/fwB28jzXDm— NBA (@NBA) November 4, 2024
Trae Young scored 23, while former Pelican Dyson Daniels, back from a two-game injury absence, added 16 for Atlanta. Larry Nance Jr. scored 14 against his former team.
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Recent Orleans was also without starters Dejounte Murray, CJ McCollum, and Herb Jones, together with outstanding reserve Trey Murphy III.
The Hawks played without starter De’Andre Hunter, plus rotation players Bogdan Bogdanovic, Vit Krejci and Kobe Bufkin as a result of injury.
Takeaways
Hawks: Daniels and Nance didn’t hide the satisfaction they got from producing against the club that traded them last offseason as a part of a deal that brought Murray to Recent Orleans. Nance blew a kiss to the Pelicans’ bench a 3 late within the third quarter. Daniels celebrated a 3 with a hand gesture that resembled spraying gunfire across Recent Orleans’ bench.
Pelicans: Young reserves hustled but lacked the firepower to stick with Atlanta. Fill-in starter Jordan Hawkins scored 19 points. Reserves Brandon Boston Jr. and Jamal Cain each scored 14.
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Key moment
The Hawks pulled away for good with a 14-0 run in the midst of the fourth quarter that made it 116-97. David Roddy ignited it with a 3 and Johnson had three dunks in the course of the spurt.
Key stat
The Pelicans were outscored 66-32 within the paint.
Up next
The Hawks play host to the defending champion Boston Celtics on Monday night. The Pelicans host Portland on Monday night within the second of two games in two nights.
