The New Orleans Pelicans certainly looked like they’ve picked up from where they left off in March, when the NBA season was so unceremoniously halted by the burgeoning and still unrelenting coronavirus pandemic.
But for a few hours there was some altered sense of normalcy, as basketball returned to the landscape. The Pelicans 99-68 win over the injury-ravaged Brooklyn Nets comes four months after they walked off the court in Sacramento, so wide pronouncements about what it means once the real games start on July 30 would be unwise.
However, there was plenty to be encouraged by just in watching how the team played.