The Warriors title validated the movement that the NBA headed towards. It's about versatility, it's about homogeneity and it's about length. The days when you can play specialists for long stretches in an NBA game, especially in the playoffs, is passing and the days of the jack-of-all, master-of-none players is coming.
The Pelicans have parts that fit that criteria. Anthony Davis and his legendary "shooting guard to power forward" story definitely fits that criteria: he's long, he's versatile and he's defensively homogeneous (i.e. he can guard different types of player at different spots on the floor).