Since serving as equipment manager for the original Charlotte Hornets expansion team in 1988-89, David Jovanovic has experienced virtually everything in professional basketball, but the Pelicans’ upcoming road trip is unprecedented even for him. New Orleans will make stops in Dallas, Los Angeles (for two games), Sacramento, Utah (for two games) and Minnesota over a two-week period, essentially playing one-fifth of its entire 2020-21 road schedule during the excursion.
Jovanovic – better known to Pelicans players, and pretty much everyone else for that matter, by his nickname of “Big Shot” – discussed the uniqueness of the seven-game journey, as well as what goes into the decision-making behind what New Orleans wears on game nights in our weekly “24 Seconds” feature:
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