Pelicans

Tyreke Evans made his season debut for the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday night, playing 11 minutes in the team’s 102-95 win over the Indiana Pacers. While that’s not much, it’s something. And the Pelicans will have to get used to interpreting baby steps as victories. Evans will not be available when New Orleans plays [...]

As it turns out, if any general manager is interested in taking the four years and $43.8 million that remain on Omer Asik’s deal, they totally can! Isn’t that great? Here’s CSN New England’s A. Sherrod Blakely: Omer Asik, the rim-protecting big man who has not been nearly as impactful in the Big Easy as [...]

The New Orleans Pelicans are on a roll. First Jrue Holiday returned to the team. Then they started playing watchable basketball. Now they’re on a five-game home winning streak. What’s next? Possibly Tyreke Evans’ return, per Fox Sports’ Jennifer Hale: [tweet https://twitter.com/JenHale504/status/799807936440729600] Evans has yet to play this season has he recovers from multiple right [...]

Anthony Davis seems like a good dude. While others elect to poke fun at the roster that the New Orleans Pelicans’ have built around him, he prefers to embrace his situation and tune out the noise. He hears it, make no mistake. But he doesn’t care, per ESPN.com’s Justin Verrier: Davis, speaking to ESPN’s Marc [...]

Despite Anthony Davis leading the NBA in scoring at 31.7 points per game and playing at an MVP level, the injury-riddled Pelicans lack depth and are once again struggling out of the gate; 4-10 to start the season. It is still very early and the Pelicans are 2-0 since Jrue Holiday returned to the lineup, [...]

Uh-oh. The last thing the New Orleans Pelicans need is to experience life without Anthony Davis long term. Short term will suck, too. But they can deal with a few automatic losses that become blowouts that (probably) become 40-point drubbings. They cannot survive the season with him missing extensive time. They’re borderline unwatchable with him; [...]

Finally, some good news for the New Orleans Pelicans. Jrue Holiday, the team’s starting point guard, hasn’t been with the team all year while dealing with a family situation. His wife, Laura, was pregnant with the couple’s first child and needed to have a brain tumor surgically removed, which she wasn’t able to do until [...]

Anthony Davis’ sprained ankle will not prevent him from playing in the New Orleans Pelicans’ season-opener against the Denver Nuggets next Wednesday. This news comes from ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/788794818822410240] [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/788795142807261184] So not only will Davis be ready in a week, he might get to test his ankle against the Orlando Magic. This [...]

Less than 12 hours after the NBA’s free agency bell rang this past summer, Jeremy Lin announced he would be signing with the Brooklyn Nets. It was a move lauded for both sides. The Nets needed a point guard, and syncing up with Brooklyn reunited Lin with Kenny Atkinson, who was an assistant with the [...]

After a very long and frustrating off-season for mercurial and brash New York product Lance Stephenson, the long wait is finally over as Stephenson has signed a one-year deal to join the New Orleans Pelicans. [tweet https://twitter.com/TodaysFastbreak/status/776075036981592064] Lance had to feel like the one rookie who would be left in the green room for hours [...]