Dylan Harper canned the decisive jumper with 9.1 seconds to play as a part of his career-high 22 factors and the visiting San Antonio Spurs outlasted the reeling New Orleans Pelicans 135-132 on Monday.
The Spurs had been up by 20 factors at halftime, however New Orleans rallied to take a 102-100 edge to the ultimate interval. San Antonio retook the lead on Julian Champagnie’s 3-pointer with 8:55 to play and slowly constructed the margin again to eight factors on a Keldon Johnson trey with 5:29 left.
The Pelicans drew inside 129-127 on an alley-oop dunk by Trey Murphy III with 1:40 remaining and took the lead on Murphy’s 3-pointer with 59.4 seconds left.
After De’Aaron Fox hit a jumper to place San Antonio up by some extent, Derik Queen capped a career-high 33-point effort with a driving layup to present New Orleans a 133-132 lead with 30 seconds to play.
Harper then canned his clutch jumper to push the Spurs again in entrance. Queen missed a 3-point try and Fox grabbed the rebound, was fouled and sank two free throws with 1.1 seconds to play.
The Pelicans’ Saddiq Bey had a 3-point try and tie rim out on the buzzer.
Harrison Barnes led San Antonio with 24 factors whereas Stephon Fortress had 18 in his first recreation again after lacking 9 contests with a hip damage. Champagnie completed with 17 factors, Fox had 14, Keldon Johnson hit for 12 and Kelly Olynyk added 11.
Queen pulled down 10 rebounds and dished out 10 assists for his first profession triple-double. Murphy added 32 factors, Bey and Herbert Jones scored 17 every and Jose Alvarado had 10 factors for New Orleans, which has misplaced seven straight video games and 16 of its previous 17.
The Spurs led 35-25 lead after one quarter and stoked their result in 25 factors on Barnes’ 3-pointer off the break with 3:48 remaining within the half. New Orleans completed the second quarter with a Queen layup that sliced the deficit to 77-57 on the break.
New Orleans got here roaring again within the third quarter, tying the sport at 87-87 on Bey’s layup with 5:29 left within the interval that capped a 15-4 run.
–Subject Degree Media
