According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the New Orleans Pelicans have applied for a disabled player exception following the Achilles injury to Darius Miller.
The Pelicans front office could have applied for this exception at any point between now and January 15th so it’s mildly interesting to see the team go that route yesterday considering their roster appeared to be locked and loaded to start the 2019-20 season despite Miller’s injury.
The issue is if the Pelicans want to utilize this exception to sign a free agent, claim a player off waivers or acquire one through trade, they would have to create space on the regular season roster.