Jordan Hawkins carried the Pelicans until Brandon Ingram and Zion Williamson stepped up in a clutch road win over the Trail Blazers.

When the Portland Trail Blazers take on the New Orleans Pelicans tonight, they will do so having to face off against star forward Zion Williamson in the lineup. He will be making his debut this year after sitting out the first game of the season.

With our luck, if I didn’t add the block, he would have threw it up, and it would have went in,” Williamson said after New Orleans’ 105-103 win in Portland. “Herb got the block. And it allowed me to get the second jump and have insurance.