New Orleans Pelicans
The Most Improved Player Award always creates the most heated debate: how does one define most improved? Which leap is more significant: a player who turns into an All-Star or a player who goes from the fringes of the NBA to a legitimate rotation player? Does it matter if we award Most Improved to a […]
Steph Curry has revealed he avoided a major injury with his back and that allowed him to return after a two-game absence. After a scary fall against the Toronto Raptors a week ago, there was fear that Curry may miss much more time than he did. Back in the 2020-21 season, Curry had fallen on […]
The weeks before the NBA postseason can often drag. Some teams are clawing for playoff position, but many top seeds begin to cruise and the league’s bottom feeders turn to full tanking mode. Still, there are always exciting things happening around the league, even if they aren’t receiving as much mainstream attention. Let’s discuss one […]
We’ve hit the home stretch of the regular season, with teams fighting for playoff spots or lottery positioning. It’s time for another NBA Rookie Ladder (here’s last month’s), breaking down this incredibly flat and fluid rookie class. There hasn’t been much shifting at the top, so we’ll spend time discussing some less heralded or productive […]
After trading for Dejounte Murray this summer, the New Orleans Pelicans hoped to finally break through and make serious playoff noise. However, their season unfolded into an unmitigated disaster, marred by devastating injuries to nearly all of their key players. Unbelievably, rookie Yves Missi is the only Pelican who hasn’t missed significant time. The 18-48 […]
The 2024-25 season has been a doomsday for the New Orleans Pelicans. They entered the year with playoff ambitions, but now sit 13-42 and last in the Western Conference. However, one bright spot to all this has been the play of Trey Murphy III. The fourth-year forward is playing the best basketball of his young […]
When you zig, we zag. That’s been the Toronto Raptors’ MO for the last four seasons at the trade deadline. When you assume they’ll sell off their players to the highest bidders, they instead use draft capital to acquire players (and their Bird Rights) in hopes of injecting talent onto their roster. They followed that […]
The Toronto Raptors are acquiring Brandon Ingram from the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for Bruce Brown Jr., Kelly Olynyk, the Indiana Pacers’ 2026 top-four protected first-round pick and a second-round pick to be detailed later. ESPN’s Shams Charania was first to report the trade, while Sportsnet’s Blake Murphy has clarified which first-round pick Toronto […]
The Oklahoma City Thunder acquired Daniel Theis and a 2031 second-round pick (because, of course, they did) from the New Orleans Pelicans to kick off their trade deadline activity, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. The 32-year-old big man hasn’t had as strong a season as in years past, but he’s proven himself a viable rotation […]
Fewer than two weeks out from the 2024-25 NBA trade deadline, the leading candidates to land elsewhere are widely known: Jimmy Butler, Bradley Beal, Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic, as well as a handful of others. But there will certainly be more movement than just the splashiest and most logical of names. Plenty other players […]
