NBA Summer League play isn’t supposed to elicit strong emotions relating to promise and hope for the entirety of a game, but that’s exactly what fans witnessed while watching the New Orleans Pelicans throttle the Chicago Bulls by a score of 109-72.
An hour and a half before tip-off, the Pelicans held a press conference to announce Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Jaxson Hayes and Marcos Didi Silva. All three guys expressed excitement about finally getting a chance to play and Trajan Langdon promised this group of rookies would play big minutes.