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NBA Preview: San Antonio Spurs to Host Short-Handed New Orleans Pelicans

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(Photo : gettyimages.com) The Pelicans are currently 27-46 and have an inferior 8-28 on road this season, while the Spurs have the league's second-best 62-12 and 37-0 at home record.

The NBA's second-best squad San Antonio Spurs will be hosting the visiting New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday night at the AT&T Center.

The Spurs will be putting their unblemished 37-0 home game record for this season in line against the injury-plagued team of the Pelicans, who are seeking to improve their team standings as the league's regular season is coming to an end.

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San Antonio boasts of 62 wins and 12 losses record and five-time NBA champion coach Gregg Popovich has the luxury of giving his starters some rest, which Pelicans Head Coach Alvin Genrty certainly does not have.

The Pelicans are currently 27-46 and has an inferior 8-28 on road this season. They have lost seven of the last ten games they played.  The team's main players Anthony Davis and Eric Gordon are definitely out for the remainder of the season.

With a lower back soreness, Norris Cole is considered day-to-day and Ryan Anderson is still nursing a sports hernia. But after missing two games, Holiday has returned from a toe injury and had 22 points, six assists, six rebounds and four steals in their 99-91 win against the New York Knicks last Monday.

Unfortunately, Holiday suffered a fractured right orbital bone during a collision with 56.1 seconds remaining in the game and was ruled out of the last nine games, adding to Gentry's frustration.

"I'm going to send out an all-points bulletin to anybody in the French Quarter or anywhere else - we need a voodoo doctor or something here," said Gentry, who served as an assistant for the defending NBA champions Golden State Warriors. "We've got to find the bones under this place or do something."

San Antonio are off to the best home start in the league's history and have not lost a regular-season home game since March 12 last year. They beat New Orleans 110-97 at AT&T Center on Feb. 3 behind a season-high 36 points from LaMarcus Aldridge.

Kawhi Leonard finished with 30 points and 11 boards while Aldridge contributed 26 in a 94-86 win on March 3.

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