When New Orleans and Atlanta get together, it’s always a fun time. At least, on the football field that is. On the basketball court, the Pelicans and Hawks are kinda equally sorry and it just doesn’t boil the blood the same way that Saints does.
But nobody wants to end a season getting swept by somebody else and that’s precisely what the Pelicans are trying to avoid Tuesday night in the Smoothie King Center.
In the team’s first meeting, the Pelicans got out to a seven-point lead over the Hawks before Atlanta outscored New Orleans 102-83 the rest of the game.