Tag: New Orleans Pelicans
New Orleans Pelicans center Omer Asik has a bacterial infection that he may have contracted while in Mexico over All-Star break, according to coach Alvin Gentry. Asik has missed the Pelicans’ past six games and lost a significant amount of weight as a result of the illness, Gentry said. While Gentry said Asik is “struggling,” […]
Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins have provided plenty of fireworks but no winning chemistry for the New Orleans Pelicans in their first three games together since a blockbuster trade moved Cousins from Sacramento. “We’re just trying to get (Cousins) and everybody else into a flow where we’re beginning to understand where guys want the ball […]
Is it better to earn an 8 seed and gain valuable playoff experience, or miss the playoffs for a shot at a high lottery pick?
Andre Drummond was ejected from the Detroit Pistons’ 109-86 loss to the Pelicans on Wednesday night for shoving New Orleans’ Tim Frazier in the back of the head after the whistle. Frazier, a 6-foot-1 point guard, ripped away a defensive rebound from the 6-foot-11 Drummond underneath the Pelicans’ basket with 1:23 to play in the […]
New Orleans Pelicans forward/center DeMarcus Cousins has been suspended one game without pay for receiving his 18th technical foul of the 2016-17 season, it was announced today by Kiki VanDeWeghe, Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations. Source: NBA.com
(DeMarcus) Cousins and Oklahoma City center Steven Adams were assessed double technical fouls only 32 seconds into the Pelicans’ 118-110 loss to the Thunder on Sunday, which would give Cousins his 18th technical foul of the season. Cousins has already had two technical fouls rescinded this season by the NBA, but if his one from […]
New Orleans is waiving forward Omri Casspi, signing guard Reggie Williams, league sources tell @TheVertical. Casspi out with broken thumb Source: Shams Charania of The Vertical on Twitter
The New Orleans Pelicans announced the team has signed free agent guard Jarrett Jack to a 10-day contract. Per team policy, terms of the deal were undisclosed. Jack, 6-3, 200, most recently played for the Brooklyn Nets, appearing in 32 games in 2015-16, averaging 12.8 points, 7.4 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 32.1 […]
The 2017 NBA trade deadline has come and gone, and while the flurry of rumors that preceded the final few days didn’t give way to quite the insanity some had hoped for, there was still a solid bevy of moves. A few pseudo-contenders stacked their rosters for runs at the presumed incumbents in their conferences, […]
The DeMarcus Cousins era got off to a rough start, as the New Orleans Pelicans were blown out by the Houston Rockets 129-99 in their first game since trading for the All-Star center. But they received even worse news afterward. Omri Casspi, the other player traded to New Orleans from the Sacramento Kings along with […]
