NEW ORLEANS -- The Portland Trail Blazers are not faring well against teams with winning records so far this season.That wont be an issue when they face the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night in the Smoothie King Center.The Blazers are 7-6 overall, but just 1-5 against teams with winning records after a 126-109 defeat against the Rockets (7-5) on Thursday night in Houston.The Pelicans (2-10) have the worst record in the NBA.Its still early, Portland All-Star point guard Damian Lillard told the Oregonian. I think weve got a lot of time to shore up things we havent done well so far. Im not happy with some of the things that have happened, but were in a good spot.Portlands only victory against a team that has a winning record came on opening night against a short-handed Utah Jazz team that was missing injured starters Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors.In their five other games against winning opponents, the Blazers lost to the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Clippers (twice), the Chicago Bulls and the Rockets by an average of 20.8 points.Im just happy that we can say that were learning through a lot of things right now, Lillard said. Were not doing well, but (were) still finding ways to win games.That hasnt been the case for New Orleans, but help is on the way.Starting point guard Jrue Holiday is expected to make his season debut against Portland. Holiday had been away from the team to be with his wife, Lauren, who last month gave birth to the couples first child, daughter Jrue, and recently underwent brain surgery to remove a tumor.Lauren Holiday is a former U.S. womens national team soccer star.Mother and daughter are doing well and stayed at home in North Carolina as Holiday rejoined his teammates and coaches, who were very supportive during his absence.Anything we needed, they were there for us, Holiday said Thursday. It was unbelievable. Im so excited. Going through a hard time, my teammates were always there for me. My teammates and the Pelicans were always there. To come back and fight for them, like they supported me, Im happy to do it.The Pelicans are happy to have their point guard back, and they are looking forward to other happy returns.It will probably take (Holiday) a couple games to get back (to form), All-Star forward Anthony Davis told the teams official website, but as long as hes on the floor.New Orleans hopes to have Davis back on the floor after he sat out an 89-82 loss at Orlando on Wednesday because of a bruised right quad. Davis practiced Thursday and is listed as questionable for the game against the Blazers.Terrence Jones started in Davis place against the Magic and scored a career-high 26 points. He also fell one rebound short of his second consecutive double-double.We tried to make sure we still had that flow as if the best big in the league was still playing with us, Jones told the teams official website. 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Cheap Jordan 4 China ., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask., took sixth spot on Saturday in pairs at the NHK Trophy ISU Grand Prix figure skating competition.The wait is finally over! A little over two months since quiet descended on the Yas Marina Circuit after the last race of 2015, F1 will return in earnest on Monday morning with a splew of car launches before the teams take to the track at the Circuit de Cataluyna.Pre-season running this year will be limited to just eight days, the shortest ever testing programme, ahead of the longest F1 campaign in history with 21 races on the 2016 calendar. The new 2016 Mercedes, the W07, broke cover on Friday in a shakedown at Silverstone, although the world champions will officially unveil their new challenger on Monday morning. Exclusive pictures of the Mercedes W07 - their new car for the 2016 F1 season. Renault, McLaren, Ferrari and Williams are currently the only teams to have revealed their new cars while Red Bull staged a livery launch on Wednesday.F1 in 2016: The cars revealed so farSister squad Toro Rosso will have their 2016 car, the STR11, present for the first test, but it will run in a blue livery, before their new colour scheme is revealed ahead of the second test.By Monday 10 of the 11 teams will have revealed their cars, with Sauber the only team bringing an old car to Barcelona, albeit in 2016 colours.The 2016 season will see a brand new team on the grid with Haas making their debut and the readiness of the American team, supported by their technical partnership with Ferrari, will be one of the key features of interest this year. Barcelona test talking points: Make or break for Alonso?Discussing Haas partnership with Ferrari, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said its clearly a very intelligent way of entering Formula 1 which opens up an avenue for new models of collaboration..ddddddddddddf the teams that entered in 2010, Manor are the only outfit remaining and the backmarkers, who failed to score a point last term, are tipped to make big strides forward this season. The team have been boosted by an aggressive recruitment policy over the winter. Former McLaren man Dave Ryan has joined as sporting director, with ex-Ferrari designer Nikolas Tombazis appointed chief aerodynamicist and fellow Scuderia exile Pat Fry arriving an as engineering consultant.The highly-rated Pascal Wehrlein will drive for the team in 2016, with the German the reigning DTM champion and under contract with Mercedes.Barcelona testing driver line-upsTest OneDay One, Monday February 22Mercedes: Lewis HamiltonFerrari: Sebastian VettelWilliams: Valtteri BottasRed Bull: Daniel RicciardoRenault: Jolyon PalmerForce India: Alfonso Celis JrMcLaren: Jenson ButtonToro Rosso: Carlos SainzHaas: Romain GrosjeanSauber: Marcus EricssonManor: Pascal WehrleinDay Two, Tuesday February 23Mercedes: Nico RosbergFerrari: Sebastian VettelWilliams: Valtteri BottasRed Bull: Daniel RicciardoRenault: Jolyon PalmerForce India: Sergio PerezMcLaren: Fernando AlonsoToro Rosso: Max VerstappenMcLaren: Fernando AlonsoHaas: Esteban GutierrezSauber: Marcus EricssonDay Three, Wednesday February 24Mercedes: Lewis HamiltonFerrari: Kimi RaikkonenWilliams: Felipe MassaRed Bull: Daniil KvyatRenault: Kevin MagnussenForce India: Nico HulkenbergMcLaren: Jenson ButtonToro Rosso: Carlos SainzHaas: Romain GrosjeanManor: Rio HaryantoSauber: Felipe NasrDay Four, Thursday February 25Mercedes: Nico RosbergFerrari: Kimi RaikkonenWilliams: Felipe MassaRed Bull: Daniil KvyatRenault: Kevin MagnussenForce India: Alfonso Celis JrMcLaren: Fernando AlonsoToro Rosso: Max VerstappenHaas: Esteban GutierrezManor: Rio HaryantoSauber: Felipe NasrThe first Barcelona test starts on Monday February 22 and the Sky Sports F1 Digital team will be providing live commentary from dawn until dusk on all four days of both Barcelona tests while Sky Sports News HQ will also deliver live updates from trackside. 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