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New Orleans, LA (SportsNetwork.com) - With Anthony Davis and Ryan Anderson each netting 22 points to lead the way, the New Orleans Pelicans dealt the ailing San Antonio Spurs another loss with a 97-90 decision at Smoothie King Center. Davis added 12 rebounds and five blocks and Anderson provided a spark off the bench in a key victory for New Orleans, which also received 15 points and seven assists from Jrue Holiday. The defending world champion Spurs fell for the sixth time in seven games and took the court minus Tony Parker due to a hamstring injury, with Kawhi Leonard remaining on the sidelines with a torn ligament in his hand. We have a lot of respect for that entire organization in San Antonio, Pelicans head coach Monty Williams remarked. Weve got to value this and try to build on it (at Chicago) tomorrow. Tim Duncan did come up with 20 points and 11 rebounds for San Antonio, while Cory Joseph also had 20 points starting in place of Parker. However, the Spurs were hurt by 17 turnovers that led to 20 New Orleans points. We turned it over and fouled too much. We were our own worst enemy, said Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich. You cant go to (injuries). Both teams play, whoever shows, plays. Whoever doesnt show doesnt matter. When you give up 20 points off turnovers on the road, youre going to have a hard time. The aging and depleted Spurs appeared to wear down in their second game in as many days. Up by just one late in the third quarter, New Orleans put together a 7-0 run that bled into the fourth and created some additional distance later on in the final frame. Anderson buried a critical 3-pointer during the aforementioned spurt and capped it with a reverse layup shortly afterward, putting the Pelicans up 72-64 with under 11 1/2 minutes left. The margin stretched to double digits after Austin Rivers steal and layup with 6:45 to go staked New Orleans to an 83-72 lead. Moments later, John Salmons buried a trey to put San Antonio down by 12, 88-76 with five minutes remaining. Triples by Joseph and Manu Ginobili in the final minute got San Antonio within 95-90 before the Pelicans Tyreke Evans sealed the outcome by hitting two free throws with nine seconds left. We know consistency is something that we need to get better at, Anderson said. But great wins like this, it shows us how we can play and how we should play. With Duncan accounting for 10 of their first 12 points, the Spurs built a 26-20 lead early in the second quarter before New Orleans turned the tide via an 11-4 run. An 8-0 surge, highlighted by back-to-back buckets from Holiday, later in the period had the Pelicans up 48-39 nearing the end of the half, but a Joseph layup and Danny Greens 3-pointer brought San Antonio within four at the break. 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On the verge of a brilliant shutout and first complete game since Aug.NEW YORK -- The two NFL owners overseeing the investigation into how the league pursued and handled evidence in the Ray Rice domestic violence case pledged Thursday to make the findings of the probe public, and said their goal was "to get the truth." New York Giants co-owner John Mara and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney, both close confidants of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, said they would not be conducting or directing the investigation. They said it would have no timeline, and that former FBI director Robert Mueller was set to begin work immediately. They said the inquirys focus will be on what efforts were made to obtain video evidence of the three-time Pro Bowl running back striking his fiancee; if the video arrived at the league office; and what happened to it after it was delivered. "Our sole motive here is to get the truth and then share Mr. Muellers findings with the public," Rooney and Mara said in a joint statement. The probe -- which the league has called independent -- was announced Wednesday hours after The Associated Press reported that a law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, sent a video to an NFL executive in April of Rice striking Janay Palmer at an Atlantic City casino. Goodell has claimed repeatedly the NFL didnt see a full account of the fight until Monday, when TMZ posted it. Rice was released by the Baltimore Ravens after the video went viral. The team had previously stood by him. The law enforcement official said he wasnt authorized to release the video, but wanted the NFL to have it as it decided on the Rice case. He played a 12-second voicemail confirming receipt of the video. A female voice expresses thanks and says: "Youre right. Its terrible." As Mueller begins to examine the case, he will likely start with Goodells top administrators, who help him run Americas most popular and profitable sport. Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti could also be under the lens. Anyone at NFL headquarters could have known months ago that the video of Rice punching his then-fiancee in a hotel elevator had been sent to the league. To figure it out, Mueller will have access to anyone he wants to talk to, as well as internal NFL documents. Those on the roster of Goodells inner circle -- and those likely to be on Muellers raddar -- are NFL general counsel Jeff Pash; director of football operations Troy Vincent; security chief Jeffrey Miller; executive vice-president of human resources Robert Gulliver; and senior vice-president of labour policy and government affairs Adolpho Birch.dddddddddddd John M. Dowd, the attorney from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld who was retained by Major League Baseball in 1989 to investigate Pete Roses gambling, says Mueller must have full authority, and that thoroughness is paramount. "You talk to the police and the person that sent it to them, and you do whatever you have to do to find out what people knew and when," Dowd told The Associated Press. "Theres always more people to talk to than you think initially. We ended up in Rose with over 100 witnesses, and we talked to all of them three times, just to double-check ourselves because we had paper coming in all the time. Here you got videos, and youll probably want to talk to Rice and his girlfriend." Mueller, who led the FBI for 12 years, is a partner at WilmerHale, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm with deep ties to the NFL and sports world. Familiar with the NFL, the firm has sent several members on to jobs with teams. Partner David Donovan spent 20 years at the law firm before joining the Washington Redskins, where he was general counsel and chief operating officer. From 1997 to 2004, current Cleveland Browns President Alec Scheiner was at WilmerHale, where he advised on various sports transactions, worked for current Baltimore Ravens President Dick Cass and did work for the Dallas Cowboys. The league has turned a critical lens on itself before. In two high-profile investigations under Goodells administration, the league found the Patriots guilty of spying on the New York Jets defensive signals, and the Saints were found to have run a three-year bounty system for hits by defensive players. Both of those probes were conducted by the NFL, although several player suspensions in the Saints case eventually were overturned by an independent appeals officer -- Paul Tagliabue, Goodells predecessor. The National Organization for Women said Goodell should resign and an independent committee should be appointed to suggest lasting reforms, calling the Mueller investigation "just window dressing." ' ' '