{"id":73067,"date":"2024-04-14T07:21:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T11:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=73067"},"modified":"2024-04-14T07:21:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T11:21:05","slug":"pelicans-cj-mccollum-breaks-franchise-record-wrap-up-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/14\/pelicans-cj-mccollum-breaks-franchise-record-wrap-up-regular-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Pels Leader Breaks Franchise Record to Wrap Up Regular Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, New Orleans Pelicans guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccolcj01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CJ McCollum<\/a> became the franchise&#8217;s single-season leader in made 3s, passing the record set by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stojape01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peja Stojakovic<\/a> in the 2007-08 season (231).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW RECORD:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CJMcCollum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@CJMcCollum<\/a> just set the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pelicans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Pelicans<\/a> record for 3&#8217;s in a season at 232 \ud83e\udee1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bCPkcVsJ4K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/bCPkcVsJ4K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PelicansNBA\/status\/1778981560961712172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pels Leader Breaks Franchise Record to Wrap Up Regular Season<\/h2>\n<p>Finishing his night against the Golden State Warriors with 28 points on 8-13 shooting from 3, McCollum has now converted 235 total 3-pointers this season. It&#8217;s only McCollum&#8217;s second full season with the franchise, as the former 10th overall pick spent the first nine-plus seasons of his career with the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6GEUuWeJIpE?si=Nj1T17_CH3UbLsU_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This season, McCollum is averaging 20.0 points, 4.6 assists, and 1.0 steal per game while shooting a career-high 42.9 percent from 3.<\/p>\n<p>While the explosive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/willizi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zion Williamson<\/a> is the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/03\/18\/pelicans-zion-williamson-surprising-change-ahead-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">face of the franchise<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/i\/ingrabr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Ingram<\/a> is a fan favorite, McCollum has become <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/03\/25\/veteran-pelicans-player-proclaims-his-team-has-best-bench\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">their leader in the locker room<\/a>, not just on the 3-point leaderboard. A heady hybrid guard on the court, McCollum is thoughtful and thought-provoking off of it, displaying a level of maturity that fits the Pelicans&#8217; roster well. Even-keeled and focused, the Ohio native is New Orleans&#8217; elder statesman at 32 years old.<\/p>\n<h3>A Friendly Challenge<\/h3>\n<p>McCollum curiously wasn&#8217;t asked about breaking the 3-point record following their victory over the Warriors. However, heading into the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murphtr02.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trey Murphy III<\/a> spoke about his teammate potentially breaking the Pelicans&#8217; single-season 3-point record. Ever confident, the 3-point marksman sees McCollum&#8217;s impending record as a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate him for setting the bar for wherever I need to get to later on in my career,&#8221; Murphy says, per The Athletic&#8217;s Will Guillory.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trey Murphy on CJ McCollum potentially breaking the single-season franchise 3-point record:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate him for setting the bar for wherever I need to get to later on in my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How long does he think CJ&#8217;s record is gonna last?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A year&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Guillory (@WillGuillory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillGuillory\/status\/1778647653884334296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Asked how long he expects McCollum&#8217;s record to last:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A deep shooter, Murphy is averaging a career-high 14.8 points per game this season. However, because injuries have limited him to 56 games, he&#8217;s unable to eclipse the single-season mark he set last season. In 2022-23, Murphy made a career-high 202 three-pointers. Had Murphy been healthy enough to play 23 more games this season, his pace (3.0 made threes per game) would have put him on par with McCollum.<\/p>\n<p>To that point, durability may be the primary determinant of whether Murphy does break McCollum&#8217;s record. Not that it wouldn&#8217;t hurt for him to increase his output from beyond the arc as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum became the franchise&#8217;s single-season leader in made 3s, passing the record set by Peja Stojakovic in the 2007-08 season (231). NEW RECORD:@CJMcCollum just set the #Pelicans record for 3&#8217;s in a season at 232 \ud83e\udee1 pic.twitter.com\/bCPkcVsJ4K \u2014 New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) April 13, 2024 Pels Leader Breaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":73177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1608,62,3],"tags":[1934,1887,4382],"class_list":["post-73067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pelicans","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-cj-mccollum","tag-peja-stojakovic","tag-trey-murphy-iii"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}