Every so often, you’ll look at your favorite NBA team’s schedule and see a particular stretch of games where you tug on your collar and say, “oof, this might not go well.” We call games with this type of potential “schedule losses.”
For the Pelicans, this is about as unfavorable a set of circumstances as they’ll face all season long: coming off a devastating loss on the first night of a back-to-back to only have to play next in Portland, a place that has been a house of horrors for New Orleans in the past — and this time figures to be no different against a pretty dang strong Trail Blazers team.