The New Orleans Pelicans are on a hot streak; winners of two in a row and four of their last five games. Only a two point defeat at the hands of the Memphis Grizzlies, on the road no less, stands as blemish in the last week and a half. Three of those four victories are by double figures.
Into the Crescent City rolls the Milwaukee Bucks, perhaps the only team in the league more disappointing than the Pelicans at the halfway mark. Like the Detroit Pistons before them the Bucks played last night in Houston; unlike those Pistons Milwaukee was unable to secure a win.