The New Orleans Pelicans recently returned from a grueling nine-day, five-game road trip that took them from the East Coast to the West Coast with plenty of stops – and time zone changes - in between. Pelicans.com was given an all-access pass to show how an NBA team handles the rigors of such a difficult road trip.
It wasn’t that long ago that the average business traveler had a good chance of periodically spotting entire NBA teams in airport terminals, a difficult-to-miss group of athletes who trudged through security checks and boarded commercial planes just like everyone else.