Boston wrapped up their longest road trip of the season in New Orleans by dismissing the Pelicans 118 to 93 at the “Smoothing King” Center. It’s one of those NBA venues where they play music all the way through the game because apparently the home team isn’t good enough to hold the interest of a sparse, late arriving and largely apathetic crowd.
The Celtics came out of the gate looking just a little bit off. Throughout the first quarter and a bit of the second, they were doing most of what they needed to do to walk away with the game, but an uncharacteristic number of turnovers and some bad shooting kept the Pelicans in the game.