It wasn’t pretty, but they did enough down the stretch to put a W in the win column.
The New Orleans Pelicans beat the Dallas Mavericks by a final score of 112-103, but the outcome wasn’t a wrap until Nickeil Alexander-Walker splashed home his sixth triple of the night with 1:04 left in regulation.
While no one should ever completely dismiss any type of victory, make no mistake, the Pelicans failed to take advantage of a Mavericks team missing Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis for far too much of this contest, needing to rely on some late-game heroics.