THE RUNDOWN
The New Orleans Pelicans started Toney Douglas, former Nugget Jordan Hamilton, Luke Babbitt, Dante Cunningham and Omer Asik and somehow pulled off a win against the Denver Nuggets. Both teams played on the road last night — Pelicans in San Antonio, Denver in Memphis — but it was the Pels that made the bigger plays down the stretch in a game that was tight all night and win it 101-95.
Denver wasted a brilliant performance from Darrell Arthur, who led the team by tying his career-high of 24 points on 10-15 shooting (4-5 from deep, 0-1 at the free throw line) to go along with nine rebounds, one block and one steal.