The New Orleans Pelicans are saying all the right things before their matchup against the Orlando Magic tonight.
“I’d say it’s high,” CJ McCollum said about the team’s sense of urgency after the morning’s shootaround. “We had some good conversations today. We had a good shootaround. We understand what’s at stake for not only tonight but the rest of the season.”
The Pelicans have lost 19 of their last 26 games, which began with a New Year Eve’s 116-101 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. Going without Zion Williamson for the vast majority of this stretch was always going to be problematic, but the Pelicans shouldn’t have the fourth-lowest winning percentage in the NBA since Dec.