Haitian-descended basketball players Bennedict Mathurin and Luguentz Dort played their first official games for their new NBA teams on Wednesday night \u2014 the Pelicans and the Hawks, respectively. Mathurin scored 11 points for the New Orleans Pelicans, while Dort added 8 in the Atlanta Hawks’ win.<\/p>\n
Mathurin opens with 11 points despite Pelicans loss<\/strong><\/p>\n Acquired by New Orleans in the offseason, Mathurin put up 11 points in 18 minutes against his former team, the Indiana Pacers. He also grabbed three rebounds and dished out two assists.<\/p>\n The Haitian guard made three of his seven field-goal attempts and five of six free throws. Despite his contribution, the Pelicans lost a close one, 123-120.<\/p>\n New Orleans had led after the first quarter, but Indiana made the difference in the fourth (37-28) to win 123-120.<\/p>\n The Pelicans continue their road trip on Friday, October 23, against the Utah Jazz, before facing the Denver Nuggets the next day.<\/p>\n Lu Dort wins his Atlanta debut<\/strong><\/p>\n Luguentz Dort began his new chapter with the Atlanta Hawks with a 132-125 win over the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n In 28 minutes on the floor, Dort scored 8 points, hitting two of five three-point attempts and both of his free throws. The former Thunder player also pulled down four rebounds and recorded a steal.<\/p>\n Atlanta travels to Charlotte on Friday to face the Hornets, before hosting the Houston Rockets on Saturday, October 24.<\/p>\n An all-Haitian matchup on October 31<\/strong><\/p>\n Basketball fans could soon see the two Haitian-descended players face off in their new colors. The Hawks visit New Orleans on Saturday, October 31, to take on Mathurin’s Pelicans.<\/p>\n The game could offer the first head-to-head meeting between the two players since they changed teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Haitian-descended basketball players Bennedict Mathurin and Luguentz Dort played their first official games for their new NBA teams on Wednesday night \u2014 the Pelicans and the Hawks, respectively. Mathurin scored 11 points for the New Orleans Pelicans, while Dort added 8 in the Atlanta Hawks’ win. Mathurin opens with 11 points despite Pelicans loss Acquired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":30722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2490,2392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31442,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31397\/revisions\/31442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}