New Orleans has struggled at the foul line for most of the first dozen games of the season, but when the Pelicans needed to make them Sunday, Steven Adams and Zion Williamson delivered. After a Sacramento surge cut the Kings’ fourth-quarter deficit to one, Adams went 4-for-4 and Williamson shot 2-for-2 in the final minutes, with Adams connecting on two with 17 seconds left to make it a two-possession game. Sacramento intentionally fouled Adams with three-plus minutes to go, but the Hack-a-Kiwi strategy backfired when the center made a pair.
New Orleans did not reach the century mark in scoring in four of its first 11 games this season, but on Sunday, the Pelicans had already amassed 100 points early in the fourth quarter.