NEW ORLEANS — The Portland Trail Blazers have shown they can beat any team in the NBA.

They’ve also shown they can lose to any team.

And for the better part of three quarters Wednesday, it looked like they were poised to fall to one of the worst teams in the league.

But with another inspiring performance from Shaedon Sharpe, another dominant outing from Deni Avdija and a clutch third-quarter flurry from Jrue Holiday, the Blazers avoided a French Quarter face plant.

The Blazers pulled away from the New Orleans Pelicans after a sluggish first half at Smoothie King Center, defeating the worst team in the Western Conference 125-117 in a game that featured a minor fracas in New Orleans.

A grimy, back-and-forth slugfest finally started to twist the Blazers’ way in the third quarter, whe

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