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New Orleans Pelicans: J.J. Redick too valuable for deal at NBA Deadline

This season didn’t start as planned for the New Orleans Pelicans, but over the last few weeks, the team has clearly begun to find an identity. With veterans like J.J. Redick acting as the voice of this young team’s locker room, the young, humble group needs his presence to continue to grow.

Playing his first season in New Orleans, Redick is having one of the best years of his career, averaging 15.2 points and shooting the second-best rate of his career from three, making 46.4% on 6.5 attempts per contest.

Redick is also simply one of the great shooters in the history of the game of basketball and his own impact is certainly has an impact on why his teams have never missed the playoffs in his NBA Career.