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New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry is aware that his team has a chance to make the playoffs in the NBA restart. He’s also aware of Zion Williamson’s oozing talent, and how they want the young gun to be healthy in the long run. In Gentry’s media availability on Tuesday, the head coach shared […]

The Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans will kick off the NBA seeding games on Thursday. According to Malika Andrews of ESPN, the Jazz and Pelicans could surround the Black Lives Matter sign on the Wide World of Sports arena court and kneel together during the playing of the national anthem. Instead of having two […]

Despite their mission to break into the Top 8 in the Western Conference, New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry is still taking the cautious approach with his super rookie Zion Williamson. The top overall pick of the 2019 Draft just returned to the bubble in Orlando, Florida last week after leaving to deal with […]

New Orleans Pelicans small forward Brandon Ingram and his family donated 982 pairs of Adidas shoes to UNC Lenoir Health Care employees on Tuesday. This is the largest single gift ever received by the employees at Lenoir. New Orleans Pelicans’ forward Brandon Ingram and his family provided a pair of shoes to every employee who […]

New Orleans Pelicans shooting guard JJ Redick defended Golden State Warriors superstar point guard Stephen Curry against ESPN analyst Bomani Jones. Jones, who called Curry the greatest system player ever, went on Redick’s podcast and told the veteran guard that Curry isn’t a guy he trusts to get his own shot off the dribble. That’s […]

New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin says he expects rookie Zion Williamson to join the team in practice by Wednesday. Williamson returned to Orlando on Friday night after leaving the NBA bubble for eight days because of a family emergency: “In theory, his quarantine would end Tuesday afternoon-ish,” Griffin said on […]

New Orleans Pelicans guard JJ Redick has confirmed that some NBA superstars are getting special treatment inside their hotel rooms in the Orlando bubble. In a recent appearance on Global Kid Power Hour with Vedant Gupta, JJ Redick spoke about some of the special treatments the superstars are getting inside their hotel rooms. “I’ve seen […]

While some NBA players have been complaining about having to wear a mask at all times while inside the bubble, it is actually quite the contrary for two of the league’s most senior coaches in Mike D’Antoni of the Houston Rockets and Alvin Gentry of the New Orleans Pelicans. The two head coaches were asked […]

Supporters of the New Orleans Pelicans can now breathe a sigh of relief with regard to the status of their young phenom, Zion Williamson. NBA insider Shams Charania has just revealed that after returning from a quick personal trip outside the Disney World bubble, Williamson should be available for his team’s first scrimmage game on […]

The New Orleans Pelicans will once again take some extreme caution with their prized rookie Zion Williamson following his return inside the bubble at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The 20-year-old Duke product left the Orlando facilities last week to tend to a sensitive family medical emergency. While his return is certainly great news for […]

New Orleans Pelicans star rookie Zion Williamson is back in the “bubble.” The first-year big man out of Duke — who is the first overall selection in the 2019 NBA Draft by New Orleans — had to skedaddle roughly a week ago due to a family emergency. Unfortunately, it coincided with the team and the […]

You know the NBA is officially back when New Orleans Pelicans shooting guard Josh Hart is getting left hanging by his teammates. This time, it was point guard Lonzo Ball. After the game, Hart took to Twitter and said he’s so used to getting no love from his teammates that he didn’t even realize Ball […]

The New Orleans Pelicans have released a statement on the status of rookie Zion Williamson. Last week, Williamson left the Orlando bubble to tend to a family emergency. Williamson is getting daily COVID-19 tests and continues to test negative. While it’s unclear when he’ll return to the bubble, he plans on coming back at some […]

With the NBA season about to resume and the playoffs just around the corner, teams are looking ahead to potential postseason matchups. That includes the Los Angeles Lakers, the current top seed in the Western Conference.  TNT’s Charles Barkley recently made waves suggesting the Portland Trail Blazers would beat the Lakers in the first round […]

According to Matt Urban of thefalconswire.com, Gatorade rolled out a new commercial starring high-profile athletes from various sports. Those stars included Elena Delle Donne of the Washington Mystics in the WNBA, American sprinter and hurdler Sydney McLaughlin, Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies in the MLB, Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans in the […]

The New Orleans Pelicans are heading into the NBA restart in a virtual tie for the No. 9 seed in the Western Conference. But the Pelicans would have been a mid-level playoff seed if Zion Williamson had been healthy all year, according to Josh Hart. Via Jonathan Abrams of Bleacher Report: “The addition of him […]

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry believes that no other player in the NBA has taken a bigger leap this 2019-20 than Brandon Ingram. In his first season with the Pelicans after a summer trade from the Los Angeles Lakers, the 22-year-old forward debuted in the All-Star game. Moreover, before the campaign was suspended […]

Lonzo Ball is currently having the best season of his young career with the New Orleans Pelicans after getting traded by the Los Angeles Lakers over the summer. Considering his improved play, that the 6-foot-6 point guard is now being considered by some as a legitimate contender for this season’s Most Improved Player of the […]

Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans had to leave the NBA “bubble” in Orlando, Florida ahead of teams returning to action in two weeks, and his teammate JJ Redick discussed what he told the rookie after Zion was forced out of the bubble due to a “family emergency.” “I reached out to Zion and […]

The Golden State Warriors had an absolutely horrendous 2019-20 campaign. So much so that they were perhaps one of the few teams that would have been more than happy if the season got cancelled altogether. The good news for the Warriors is that their suffering doesn’t look like it’s going to last more than a […]

The New Orleans Pelicans announced on Thursday that Zion Williamson left the Orlando bubble to attend to family health matters. New Orleans, likewise, expects the rookie star to rejoin the team at the Walt Disney World complex at a later date. While his status to return is still up in the air, Pelicans head coach […]

The restart of the 2019-20 NBA season is merely days away and the New Orleans Pelicans have some clutch decisions to make, depending on when they get their star rookie Zion Williamson back on the court. Even if the 20-year-old, who recently left the bubble due to a family emergency, returns in time to play […]

Zion Williamson suddenly departing from the NBA bubble made a splash two weeks before the restart of the 2019-20 season, as the New Orleans Pelicans rookie had to tend to “an urgent family matter.” Couple that with reports that Williamson struggled with leg cramps during practice, and the Pelicans have a wave of headaches to […]

New Orleans Pelicans star rookie Zion Williamson has just left the NBA Bubble in Orlando to attend to an “urgent family medical matter”. In his absence, the Pelicans are holding on to their next man up mentality that has worked for them all season. “He’s a great player we’ll miss, but one thing we’ve always […]

New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson experienced leg cramps throughout the week and missed parts of practice before leaving the NBA bubble to tend to “an urgent family matter,” according to Shams Charania of The Athletic. The cramps were not the reason for his exit, as medical personnel said he is “fine” and the cramping […]

New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson has left the NBA bubble in Orlando due to an urgent family medical emergency, the team announced on Thursday. The rookie stud plans to rejoin the team at the Walt Disney World complex at a later time. “We fully support Zion’s decision to leave the NBA campus to be […]

The New Orleans Pelicans franchise — which was called the New Orleans Hornets from 2002 to 2013 and also held the title of New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets due to the tragic events of Hurricane Katrina — has only had two Hall of Fame talents suit up for the club. Chris Paul and Anthony Davis established […]

New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday is donating the remainder of his 2019-20 salary, which could be worth up to $5.3 million, to start the Jrue and Lauren Social Justice Impact Fund, according to ESPN’s Andrew Lopez. Holiday is following in the footsteps of San Antonio Spurs guard Patty Mills, who donated over $1 million […]

The New Orleans Pelicans have crucial decisions to make in the offseason, namely cementing a key pillar to their rebuild in Brandon Ingram. According to ESPN’s Andrew Lopez, the Pelicans view Ingram as a critical building block going forward. Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin told reporters last month he believes Ingram […]

The alleged representative who purportedly paid Zion Williamson’s stepfather $400,000 while the 6-foot-6 phenom was enrolled at Duke University admitted he was conned by someone pretending to be in the New Orleans Pelicans rookie’s inner circle. In a story that gets stranger by the second, Slavko Duric, a Canadian marketing representative shown as the president […]

DeMarcus Cousins has a bunch of tattoos on his body, and he takes great pride in the artwork. Let’s take a look at Cousins’ tattoos and what they mean.  “MISUNDERSTOOD” on right calf While Boogie has a ton of talent, he’s also known for being a rather volatile presence on the basketball court. From suspensions […]

Life in the bubble for NBA players has been different, to say the least. After all, being quarantined in an isolated space without any access to the outside world can pose its own set of challenges. As it turns out, keeping themselves entertained has become one of the issues guys like JJ Redick and Meyers […]

If you want to see New Orleans Pelicans shooting guard JJ Redick shotgun a beer live, then you have to hope his tweet gets at least 10,000 retweets by 5 p.m. on Sunday. While Redick was playing golf at Disney World on Saturday, he had a beer with him since the water fountain wasn’t operating. […]

The 22 NBA teams at the “bubble” in Orlando are ramping up preparations with the restart scheduled for the end of this month. It has been a long layoff, and many teams–including the New Orleans Pelicans–have already begun intrasquad scrimmages. Zion Williamson appears to be dominating these scrimmages. Zion out here bullying 😤 (via @NBA) pic.twitter.com/L13F9mVvxi […]

During a conference call with reporters on Friday, New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson spoke about how the quarantine period made him feel like he was “5 years old again.” In order to get ready for the “bubble” games at Disney World, Williamson worked out with his stepfather during the hiatus and relearned all the […]

On the most recent episode of “The JJ Redick Podcast,” the New Orleans Pelicans guard spoke about his admiration for Golden State Warriors All-Star Klay Thompson. Thompson, who will return to the court for the Warriors in 2020-21 after missing the entire 2019-20 season rehabbing his ACL injury, is one of Redick’s favorite players in […]

Orlando Magic swingman Terrence Ross offered the public a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the game room and lounge area at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort—and there’s no shortage of games for these highly competitive people to play. The digs for the Magic and other teams include multiple PlayStation 4 consoles, a plethora of arcade games, a few […]

Care to guess just how many tattoos Brandon Ingram actually has? Believe it or not, he has a whopping 46 tattoos all over his body. Therefore, it only makes sense that this makes him one of the most tattooed men in the entire NBA. As a matter of fact, he started getting inked as early […]

Zion Williamson seemed to be on his way to an easy win after the latest findings from his lawsuit saw the judge rule in his favor. However, the New Orleans Pelicans star’s former marketing agent, Gina Ford, has found and filed for newly-discovered evidence in the North Carolina federal lawsuit. A new affidavit claims Williamson […]