Dell Demps has no time for your draft. The New Orleans Pelicans general manager is bound and determined to fail to field a summer league team altogether. Instead of keeping Branden Dawson around his rights were sold immediately to the Los Angeles Clippers.
— Scott Kushner (@ScottDKushner) June 26, 2015
The probability of Dawson being a difference maker this season was negligible at best this season. Instead the Pelicans turned that pick into cold hard cash. Might that money be used in negotiations for undrafted free agents? Who knows.