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Los Struggles Continue For the Pelicans on Spanish Night
The Jazz snapped a 5-game losing streak against the New Orleans Pelicans in a 106-94 win. This is the Pelicans 4th loss in a row. Unlike their prior three losses, the Pelicans never led in the fourth quarter. How the Pelicans fared on their keys to the game: Davis Rolling- Anthony Davis’ totals look gaudy, […]
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Bryce Dejean-Jones Signed
The New Orleans Pelicans signed Bryce Dejean-Jones today. Dejean-Jones, 6-6, 203, has played in 11 games for the Pelicans this year, eight of which were starts, averaging 6.3 points and 3.5 rebounds in 19.9 minutes per game. He is shooting 42.9% from the field this year, and 38.5% from beyond the arc. Dejean-Jones, who is […]
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Trade Machine Madness: Jrue Holiday Edition
So as the trade deadline comes our way, rumors and speculation on possible trades have been plentiful for the New Orleans Pelicans. After analyzing what Chad Ford’s Detroit Piston trade would do for the Pelicans last week, I decided to analyze a couple of trades. But with biases often prevalent in these trades (see: Amin […]
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Digging Into the Proposed Chad Ford Trade
In ESPN’s recent Insider piece on trades that Eastern Conference teams should do, NBA Beat Writer Chad Ford proposed a trade between the Detroit Pistons and the New Orleans Pelicans. The deal has the New Orleans Pelicans trading Ryan Anderson and Tyreke Evans away to the Detroit Pistons for Ersan Ilyasova, Brandon Jennings, and Stanley […]
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Pelican Scoop: On the Trade Deadline
We are all thinking about it, so why not have a conversation about it – The Trade Deadline. For the last few seasons, the Pelicans have been mostly buyers or, at the very least, neutral this time of year. All of their core pieces were under contract for multiple seasons and they were on a […]
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The New Orleans Pelicans Lose to the Los Angeles Lakers
The New Orleans Pelicans (11-26) lost their fourth game in a row on Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers (9-31) 95-91. Lou Williams scored nine of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, including a clutch runner with 18 seconds left to put the Lakers up three. The Pelicans four game winning streak against the […]
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Game On: New Orleans Pelicans @ Los Angeles Lakers
The New Orleans Pelicans (11-25) take on the Los Angeles Lakers (8-31) in a battle of the two teams with the worst records in the Western Conference. The New Orleans Pelicans enter the game trying to pick up a win after losing three straight, including an overtime loss against the Los Angeles Clippers 114-111. Star Anthony […]
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Blowing It All Up (To Get Younger Edition)
Yesterday, our own Michael McNamara wrote an article about the difference between tanking and blowing it all up. “Tanking” has become polarizing due to the much maligned and highly ridiculed process that Sam Hinkie and the Philadelphia 76ers are taking. And while the validity of that process is a debate for another day, fear of […]
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Recap: New Orleans Pelicans Lose to the Boston Celtics 111-93
“They played a lot harder than we did. They competed and they played together and moved the basketball and we didn’t. When you’re going against a team like that the result is you’re going to get your ass kicked at home.” –Alvin Gentry That sums the New Orleans Pelicans (5-16) 111-93 loss against the Boston […]
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Moleskin Moments: Boston Celtics v. New Orleans Pelicans
First Quarter 9:13 Davis 3-3 on mid range jumpers. Pels trails Celts 7-6. 8:15 Gee hitting baseline 3s would be huge. Pels lead 10-7 6:25 Bad second foul on Anthony Davis. Falls for the pump fake, sits with the Pels down 13-10. 5:52 No fast break points or points in the paint for the @PelicansNBA […]
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Game On: Boston Celtics v. New Orleans Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans will try to build off one of their most impressive wins of the season as they take on the Boston Celtics tonight at the Smoothie King Center. On Friday, the Pelicans beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 114-108 in overtime. The win was the team’s third win in their last four contests at […]
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Recap: Pelicans Lose Home Opener to the Warriors
The New Orleans Pelicans (0-3) lost their home opener against the Golden State Warriors (3-0) 134-120. Steph Curry led the Warriors scoring 53 points on 17/27 shooting. He made 8/14 shots from beyond the arc and all 11 of his free throws. Draymond Green made four of five shots from beyond the arc on his […]
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Moleskin Moments: Warriors beat the Pels in Home Opener
First Quarter 7:41 Like a flurry during a prize fight, every time Davis gets matched up with Curry the audience holds their breath. 6:09 in the 1Q 17-17. Thompson just picked up his second foul. Toney Douglas comes in for Jrue Holiday after 6 minutes. Holiday was 1/4 for 2 points with 2 assists. 5:13 […]
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Game On: Warriors v. Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans come into tonight’s home opener 0-2, after a couple of roughing outings in Oakland and Portland. Here are the keys to the game in order to avoid an 0-3 start as they take on the Golden State Warriors: Get Anthony Davis Going: This may be the most important and easiest key […]
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Bill Simmons Calls New Orleans A Contender
On Bill Simmons new not-ESPN podcast (The Bill Simmons Podcast), Simmons called the New Orleans Pelicans a title-contender. The topic came up when talking with his buddy Joe House about championship odds for this upcoming season. Simmons remarked how Miami was an interesting dark horse at +4000, but how the team that he was most […]
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Summer Is Coming!
Summer league is coming for the New Orleans Pelicans. The team will host a mini-camp from July 6-9th, with their first game in Las Vegas, NV, being on July 10th against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Pelicans also have games scheduled against the Dallas Mavericks and the Brooklyn Nets. After that, summer league turns into a […]
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Dreaming of the Draft
It’s hard to argue that the Pelicans are going to trade for a draft pick. According to a source, they haven’t brought anyone in for workouts yet, and the rumor mill has been churching up nothing for the Pelicans thus far. Recent history doesn’t suggest the Pelicans will be trading into the draft either. Since […]
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Filling up the Seats: Erman and Pack
The New Orleans Pelicans are wasting no time in filling up the rest of their bench. According to Yahoo! Sports, the New Orleans Pelicans are closing in on signing defensive guru Darren Erman to be the associate head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans. The Pelicans are also working on a deal to secure Robert […]
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Head Coach Tournament: Jeff Van Gundy v. Ettore Messina
The Case for Jeff Van Gundy by: Mason Ginsberg To view the previous round with Jeff Van Gundy, click here. [youtube id=”KFLeWYCfJ98″ width=”620″ height=”360″] We all know that Jeff Van Gundy is excellent on the defensive end; that’s not where the main question about his candidacy lies. If anything, it revolves around the fact that he hasn’t […]
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Head Coach Tournament: Tom Thibodeau v. Alvin Gentry
In Round Two, we’ll be projecting what we think a coach would want as a line-up – using our players, or, if likely, players they may ask Dell to target. The Case for Tom Thibodeau by: Ryan Schwan To view the previous bracket with Tom Thibodeau, click here. One thing matters in Tom Thibodeau’s world. […]