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New Orleans Pelicans: Grading the Pels’ offseason so far

Eric Bledsoe #6 of the Milwaukee Bucks is defended by Jrue Holiday #11 of the New Orleans Pelicans (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)

The New Orleans Pelicans have had a busy offseason that gets inconsistent grades.

The New Orleans Pelicans offseason started when they fired head coach Alvin Gentry and eventually hired Stan Van Gundy.

Van Gundy was not my first choice but he is a solid coach, mentor and citizen who should be able to milk some improvement out of this young team, especially defensively.

I would give the Van Gundy hiring a solid B+ for a grade, especially considering some of the more attractive options were already hired or wanted to be somewhere else, while New Orleans was SVG’s first and only choice.