LAKERS

The Lakers tried to get Caldwell-pope a chance at a tying 3 in the final seconds, but two Pelicans defenders quickly converged. Caldwell-pope tried to pass instead, but Davis intercepted.

Jrue Holiday had 26 points on 12-of-16 shooting for New Orleans, which shot 54.7 percent

(52 of 95). E’twaun Moore and Ian Clark each scored 13.

Brook Lopez scored 23 points, Kyle Kuzma 22 and Isaiah Thomas 15 for Los Angeles, which dropped its fourth straight.

There were 19 lead changes and 15 ties in a high-scoring first half.

Caldwell-pope came out firing from deep early, hitting his first five 3-point shots. That spurred the Lakers to

a 44-point first quarter, the most points allowed in any quarter by New Orleans all season. Randle produced one of the more spectacular highlights of the game during the period when he rebounded his own block of Emeka Okafor and beat both Clark and Holiday on an end-to-end dribble for a soaring two-handed dunk.

But the Pelicans kept pace, scoring 40 points

on 65.4 percent shooting (17 of 26), with 32 of those points coming in the paint.

Both offenses slowed in the second quarter, but not by much.

New Orleans led 71-69 when Davis converted a lay-up on an alley-oop lob from Moore with 2:26 to go in the period, but the Lakers responded with Lopez’s dunk and 7-foot jumper to take a 73-71 lead at halftime.