The New Orleans Pelicans will be hosting the best team in basketball Monday night and they’ve already been soundly defeated twice by this formidable opponent.
With an impressive 27-7 record, the Utah Jazz stand atop the Western Conference standings, 3.5 games ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers. Very few expected such a setting back in preseason and you have to think that no one’s imagination was wild enough to picture it after the Jazz began this campaign with a 4-4 record.
The script is straightforward: the Pelicans have to beat a Utah squad that has gone 23-3 since that .