The New Orleans Pelicans’ season of frustration continued Friday night.

This time, it came against a team that has been a thorn in the Pelicans’ side in recent years.

The Pelicans fell to the Los Angeles Lakers 118-104 on Friday at Smoothie King Center. It was the seventh straight loss to the Lakers. The Pels' last win against the Lakers came on Dec. 31, 2023.

Not even another big scoring night from Trey Murphy was enough to get the Pelicans past the Lakers and their trio of Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Deandre Ayton.

Murphy, two nights from climbing to second place on the Pelicans’ all-time 3-pointers made list, finished with 35 points. He scored 22 of his points in the first half. He would’ve had 25 in the half, but a buzzer-beater at the end of the first quarter was overturned aft

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