It’s that time of year again! No. Not the one with unbridled hope of what a brand new edition of the Pelicans franchise could achieve in the coming months. No. Instead we get to focus on injury timetables, reading up on the various ligaments in the human body not yet familiar, and various other maladies.
Before training camp even began the Pelicans sounded the alarm. Tyreke Evans and Quincy Pondexter would not be available at the beginning of the season. Jrue Holiday, tending to his growing family and wife with a recently diagnosed brain tumor, would also be out an undisclosed amount of time.