New Orleans has experienced some positive results when relying on the backcourt pairing of point guards Jrue Holiday and Tim Frazier, but on Sunday, they’ll start the game together. Pelicans second-year head coach Alvin Gentry told media in pregame that he’s going with Frazier as a replacement in the first unit for Wayne Selden Jr., who has signed for the remainder of the season with Memphis.
Other notes from pregame at the Smoothie King Center:
A few hours before tip-off, the Pelicans announced that they were signing Quinn Cook to a 10-day contract. Cook was solid for New Orleans in preseason and had a big scoring game in China vs.