They were without three young veterans in Trey Murphy III, Naji Marshall and Jose Alvarado. All of their 2022 draft picks, Dyson Daniels, E.J. Liddell and Karlo Matkovic, were also not in uniform. At the end of the day, or more accurately, this evening’s game though, it didn’t matter. The rest of the summer league Pelicans picked up the slack, destroying the Washington Wizards by a 106-88 score.
“They brought the juice,” Jarron Collins said in postgame. “They brought a lot of energy. And we talked about it before the game, they did it together.”
Five Pelicans scored in double figures.