Clippers at Pelicans Game Day 2026-03-18

LA Clippers

34-34 • 15-19 road

at

New Orleans Pelicans

23-46 • 14-21 home

· 5:00 PM PT · TV: GCSEN / Pelicans.com / FanDuel SN SoCal

Spread: NO -1.5 ·O/U: 228.5

Clippers

113.5 PPG

Pelicans

115.6 PPG

Team Leaders

Clippers

Kawhi Leonard 28.3 PPG

Kawhi Leonard 6.3 RPG

Kawhi Leonard 3.7 APG

Pelicans

Trey Murphy III 21.9 PPG

Derik Queen 7.0 RPG

Trey Murphy III 3.9 APG

Key Matchup

Trey Murphy III (21.9 PPG, 5.7 RPG, 3.9 APG, 1.5 SPG, 0.3 BPG) vs Kawhi Leonard (28.3 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 3.7 APG, 2.0 SPG, 0.4 BPG)

Injury Report

Clippers

Out: Bennedict Mathurin

Day-To-Day: Kawhi Leonard

Day-To-Day: Darius Garland

Out: Yanic Konan Niederhauser

Out: Bradley Beal

Pelicans

Out: Bryce McGowens

Day-To-Day: Dejounte Murray

Season Series: LAC lead 2-0

The Clippers (15-19 on the road) visit the Pelicans, who are 14-21 at home. NO is favored by 1.5 points.

What are your predictions? Are there any injury/player availability updates?

Clips had an early 14 point lead but has struggled since, down 96-85 at the end of 3Q. Free throws are usually a significant way for Clips to score, but only gone to the line 12 times thus far.

Big bingo by Miller, cuts it to 13

Tricky move by Garland, spins and banks it home, and now Collins the and 1! Can cut it to 8 with a FT.

Collins is taken out of the game as Lopez comes in, but Jackson stays. Meanwhile, Pelicans drill another 3. Now more bad passes, and the Clippers are in huge trouble down 16 with 4:43 to go.

Ty Lue waves the white flag as Bogie, Pedulla, Christie, and Sanders come in, joining Jackson.

Cam Christie with excellent defense, forces 2 turnovers, now hits the J. Seems like perhaps Ty Lue should've gone with these end of bench energy guys earlier.

Bad loss for the Clips trying to hang on to that 8th spot. Just got badly outshot on 3's, and couldn't get to the line, while the Pels did well in both categories. If you take out Kawhi's 4 of 6 from deep, the other guys went a combined 6 of 25.

Always the effin Pels

This one's rough. The Pels suck, and this is not an easy game to stomach.

If this ball watching on shots continues, tomorrow is going to look the same.