Man, the New Orleans Pelicans cannot catch a break. Well, I guess that’s not entirely true. They’re just catching the wrong breaks. Tyreke Evans, the team’s second-leading scorer last season, will miss some time after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, per Brett Dawson of the New Orleans Advocate: Source: Pelicans Tyreke Evans had [...]
October 20, 2015
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Nate Robinson is once again going to be employed by an NBA team. Everybody party. Especially if you’re a New Orleans Pelicans fan. Marc Stein of ESPN.com had the deets first: ESPN sources say Pelicans are signing veteran guard Nate Robinson — Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) October 15, 2015 It's a one-year veteran minimum deal for [...]
October 15, 2015
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Some NBA players, many of them highly regarded defenders, would view leading the league in blocks as a luxury, an added bonus that, in the end, doesn’t mean too much. Anthony Davis is not one of those players. The New Orleans Pelicans wunderkind sent away 200 shots last season, which led the entire Association. That’s [...]
October 14, 2015
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The NBA’s preseason has not been kind to the New Orleans Pelicans’ big men. First Alexis Ajinca went down with a right hamstring strain, which, per a team announcement, is expected to sideline him for the next four to six weeks. Now, to make matters worse, starting center/$60 million man Omer Asik is projected to [...]
October 9, 2015
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DeMarcus Cousins is not writing off the Sacramento Kings. Or himself. Through Cousins’ first five NBA seasons, the Kings have not only failed to make a single playoff appearance, they’ve yet to even win 30 games. Despite another offseason infected with rumors and marked by turnover, Cousins thinks that can change. Per Bleacher Report’s Kevin [...]
October 7, 2015
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New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry isn’t messing around when it comes to Jrue Holiday. After missing just 14 games through the first four seasons of his career, all of which were spent with the Philadelphia 76ers, Holiday has missed 90 over the last two. Put simply, his time in New Orleans has not [...]
September 25, 2015
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Whomever said Anthony Davis didn’t have a little Kobe Bryant in him was a bald-faced serial liar. At only 22 years old, with just three NBA season under his belt, having only appeared in four playoff games, Davis is already thinking about his place among the all-time greats—a spot he plans on reserving, and then [...]
September 21, 2015
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Eric Gordon’s feelings about the New Orleans Pelicans have changed. It was the summer of 2012, and Gordon, after spending a year in New Orleans following the Chris Paul trade, signed a max offer sheet with the Phoenix Suns in restricted free agency. Knowing the Pelicans (then the Hornets), could match that contract, he publicly [...]
September 16, 2015
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Kevin Garnett has rookie Karl-Anthony Towns’ back. The 19-year-old Towns, who was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the first over pick in this year’s draft, was born a little bit after the 39-year-old Garnett made his NBA debut, and now they’re teammates, which is flipping cray and just out of this world. Towns himself [...]
September 8, 2015
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Anthony Davis is like the Energizer Bunny of fear: He just keeps getting scarier and scarier and scarier and scarier. Last week, we riffed on the Brow bulking up and turning the NBA’s fellow power forwards and centers into his own personal playthings. Now we’re back to him incorporating three-pointers into his already-expansive arsenal. Yes, [...]
August 31, 2015
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