For the second time during the 2015 calendar year, on Friday the New Orleans Pelicans host an Atlanta team claiming the NBA’s longest active winning streak. The Pelicans will try to achieve a similar result to the last meeting with the Hawks in the Smoothie King Center.
On Feb. 2, the night after Super Bowl XLIX, Atlanta rode a 19-game winning streak into its once-per-regular season visit to New Orleans, but the Pelicans rolled to a 115-100 triumph. Having already set a franchise record for consecutive victories, the Hawks wound up one win shy of tying for the fourth-longest string of success in NBA history.