The New Orleans Pelicans couldn’t have started the season in a much more discouraging fashion, but things have certainly swung since their mid-December turnaround.
While early returns presented a team on cruise control straight for another trip to the draft lottery and on a path to trading off a lot of their key veteran talents, the team is currently looking a whole lot friskier, more like the team many expected to be a pest in the Western Conference Playoffs.
Seemingly, the team shouldn’t be interested in subtracting the likes of Jrue Holiday, J.