Heading into the 2016 offseason, the assumption was Tim Frazier would likely be re-signed by the Pelicans. That he would function as the point guard with the reserve unit, or perhaps the team’s third main ball handler pending the role of Tyreke Evans. Then once the front office added two combo guards in free agency, Langston Galloway and E’Twaun Moore, Frazier’s fate in New Orleans became very much in question.
Fast forward a few months later and Frazier is probably as indispensable to the team as anyone not named Anthony Davis. Jrue Holiday is out for a unspecified amount of time and Evans tedious rehabilitation has him returning to the rotation in December, at the earliest.