The New Orleans Pelicans have a new three-headed monster to build around, and it doesn't include the team's "face of the franchise".
It’s hard to find positive takeaways when a team starts its season as poorly as the New Orleans Pelicans have in the 2025-26 campaign. Their 2-13 record has them sitting at the bottom of the Western Conference. It becomes especially hard when the team doesn’t have that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, that is, their own first-round pick.