When the Pelicans hosted the Portland Trail Blazers, no one expected things to get this heated. Yet that was what happened in the second quarter. The Blazers’ Jerami Grant got into a scuffle with New Orleans’ Yves Missi. The situation got bad enough for teammates to get involved, to break them up, not join in. The physical altercation involved a lot of pushing and pulling. Once cooler heads prevailed, Jerami Grant and Yves Missi were ejected from the game.

Without the players, the Blazers and Pelicans have made the second half into a tug-of-war. It’s a very close game with the Pelicans cutting a 7+ point gap into 76-79 with 5:00 minutes left in the third quarter.

It happened after Pelicans’ Trey Murphy missed his three-point attempt. Missi and Grant got tangled while battling for the reb

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