The Pelicans need to let Jordan Poole cook next season. 🔥
Former champion who already showed his full offensive potential with the Warriors.
Let JP cook.
Yves Missi put on a show on both ends of the court leading Cameroon to their 6th straight win in FIBA World Cup Qualifiers 💪
🇨🇲 24 PTS
🇨🇲 9 REB
🇨🇲 4 BLK
(via @FIBAWC)
The Pelicans potential starting lineup:
Dejounte Murray
Trey Murphy
Saddiq Bey
Zion Williamson
Derik Queen
Bennedict Mathurin, Herb Jones, Jeremiah Fears, Jordan Poole, Yves Missi, + more off the bench
New Orleans could be a serious sleeper team in the West. 🔥👀
Free agent F Trendon Watford has agreed to a one-year, $2.9 million deal with the New Orleans Pelicans, sources tell ESPN. Watford considered multiple options but for New Orleans serves as a productive two-way get late into the offseason after a year in Philadelphia where he notched a 20-point, 17-rebound, 10-assist triple double in November.
"We still don’t have evidence that the NBA works in New Orleans... it’s just never worked, and I’m not sure they should have an NBA team."
- Bill Simmons
(h/t @TheNBABase )
Carmelo Anthony says he would not have left $113,000,000 on the table like Jalen Brunson because you can’t make that back through off court earnings
“I’m not doing it. Listen, you can’t make $113 million off the court. Peoples are busting their ass out there, and they’re making $113 million off the court. And I’m talking about people who’ve been off the court for years and years, who are the biggest stars out there, they not making $100 million off the court”
“That right there is different. He’s making something. He should be making something. $113 million, to make that up on the back end is crazy. I don’t know the logic and the thinking behind why he did it”
Tony Allen calls out LeBron James, saying players hunted him on defense and his only great defensive plays were chase-down blocks.
“All you did was a couple chase down blocks a game. Name somebody that he had to lock up and get the win”
(@TheHeatCentral)
The Pelicans went 26-56 last season and somehow followed it up with an offseason featuring no trades, no free-agent signings, and 14 of the same 15 players returning 😅
(h/t @RTNBA )