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The Bourbon Street Shots Pelicans
With another NBA season set to kick off this week, I find myself thinking about where I was last year at this time. I had started a brand new job in...
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Quick Wins and a Path Forward
We are right in the thick of the 2016 NBA preseason, and it seems as if the only buckets being filled up for the Pelicans are ones full of bad news. First,...
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With Free Agency Looming Next Summer, Jrue Holiday Switches Agents
During a point in the off-season when there is very limited news, a bit of interesting information came out yesterday about starting Pelicans point guard Jrue Holiday. According to Liz Mullen of Sports...
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How Are You Feeling About the Pelicans’ Off-season?
Jake Madison and Mason Ginsberg have differing opinions about the New Orleans Pelicans’ off-season. Personally, (it’s me, Jake. Hi, everyone!) I’m feeling rather lukewarm about it all. Mason is more optimistic....
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A Snapshot of the Pelicans’ Transforming Roster
About a year ago today, I wrote a column discussing the ramifications for the Pelicans of the coming cap jump in the 2016 off-season. That time is now here, and boy,...
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Season in Review: Eric Gordon – shooter but not much else
Last week, Nick Lewellen wrote the following in his Season in Review piece about Ryan Anderson: Sure, he is only 27, but the important part of NBA youth, the potential for growth, seems...
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Pelicans Dominate Battle of the Backups in 106-87 Victory over Nets
For the first 5 1/2 minutes of today’s game in Brooklyn, the Pelicans looked worse than a D-League team. Their first 10 possessions consisted of seven missed shots (two of them...
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Game On: Pelicans @ Nets
The Pelicans head to Brooklyn for a game that features only two players who would start for the majority of teams in this league, both of whom play for the opposing Nets (Brook...
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In the NO Podcast Ep 248: Let down
Mason Ginsberg joins me by phone to talk about yet another bizarre week to Pelicans basketball, complete with wins against OKC, a loss to the Timberwolves, and a craptastic mess in...
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Pelicans Transformed by Wizards into Flightless Birds in 2nd Half of 109-89 Loss
One game after Anthony Davis led New Orleans to victory in Detroit with a career high (and NBA season high) 59 points, Davis and the Pelicans crash landed in DC in a brutal...
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Game On: Pelicans @ Wizards
Fresh off of the best performance of Anthony Davis’ young career, the Pelicans head to Washington DC to take on the Wizards. New Orleans got the best of Washington in the two...
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Pelicans Visit Oklahoma City to Play Thunder in Midst of Heavy Hearts
For those of you who came here looking to read about what the Pelicans need to do to win tonight, I apologize for not delivering that to you. But it’s just...
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Why Jrue Holiday is Still Coming off of the Bench for the Pelicans
In the first month of this calendar year, Jrue Holiday played just under 30 minutes per game in the Pelicans’ 14 contests. He finished the month with a PER of 23.0, 6th highest...
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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...
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Pelicans Hang Tough but Falter Late in 112-111 Loss to Rockets
Late in the second quarter, the Pelicans lost Anthony Davis to a head injury after taking an elbow from teammate Tyreke Evans. New Orleans entered halftime with a 60-58 edge, but soon...
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Pelicans Look to Continue Hot Streak at Home vs. Rockets
Tonight, the red-hot (what?) New Orleans Pelicans host the Houston Rockets in an intra-division match-up with the season series tied at one game apiece. The Pelicans are playing some of their best basketball...
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Pelicans Outlast Hornets with Hard-Fought 109-107 Victory
For two teams who have been struggling so mightily as of late, it would have been difficult to predict a game so fun and exciting. And yet, that kind of game...
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Game On: Hornets @ Pelicans
Tonight, the Pelicans host the Hornets (still sounds a little weird to say), an opponent who has experienced similar fortunes as themselves as of late. Both teams were able to snap long losing streaks...
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Meet and Dine with Joel Meyers, Jrue Holiday, and Toney Douglas
Disclosure: My father donates his time to this organization, serving on its board of directors. No one on the 3 Point Club’s Executive Committee or Board of Directors receive any kind of financial compensation...
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Pelicans force OT but come up short in sloppy game with 94-88 Loss
I really hate to start a post about an overtime loss so negatively, but outside of Anthony Davis, I’m really running out of good things to say about this Pelicans team....