New Orleans Pelicans

The New Orleans Pelicans have reportedly requested to interview Pistons assistant coach Jarrett Jack.

The Pelicans could be making some big moves to fill the vacancy in the head coach position as two former Lakers' members emerge as candidates.

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Steve Hetzel, an assistant coach with the Brooklyn Nets, has interviewed for the New Orleans Pelicans head coaching vacancy as the team continues to widen its search L'articolo Pelicans add Steve Hetzel to coaching search, Nets assistant interviews for New Orleans job proviene da Sportando.

Rajon Rondo is among the candidates the Pelicans are considering as they look for their next head coach, with league sources telling Jake Fischer and Marc Stein of The Stein Line (Substack link) that he has already interviewed for the position. The former All-Star guard was hired in 2024 as a special assistant on Doc […]

Former Kentucky Wildcat and two-time NBA champion Rajon Rondo is reportedly in the running to be a NBA head coach. According to Marc Stein, the New Orleans Pelicans are largely considering Rondo for their HC position. He spent the 2017-2018 season as the starting point guard, averaging eight points and as many assists in 65 […]

The New Orleans Pelicans are considering James Borrego to remain as their head coach, as well as looking at several long-time NBA assistant coaches. Borrego went 24-46 as the Pelicans interim head coach after he took over for Willie Green. New Orleans is also considering multiple assistant coaches. San Antonio Spurs assistant Sean Sweeney, Milwaukee Bucks assistant Darvin Ham, and Brooklyn Nets assistant Steve Hetzel are all in the mix. The Pelicans are also hoping to interview Detroit Piston...

Kevin Durant, who also missed Game 1 of the first round series with a bruised right knee, sat out of the Rockets' 112-108 overtime loss to LA with a sprained ankle.

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The Mavericks and The New Orleans Pelicans Flipped a Coin for the 7th Best Odds at the Number 1 Pick

The NBA is set to hold tiebreakers for selections in the 2026 NBA Draft on Monday, April 20. If the tie is between lottery teams, these tiebreakers set the order pre-Draft Lottery. The actual lottery odds will be split evenly between the tied teams. Non-lottery teams will also have their order decided by the tiebreakers. The second-round draft order will then be the inverse of the first-round. The ties to be broken are: 4/5: Sacramento Kings and Utah Jazz 7/8: Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans...

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The New Orleans Pelicans are restructuring their basketball operations staff and are reorganizing multiple departments. A "significant number" of staff have will not be retained under Joe Dumars. The team are also in the beginning stages of their head coach search, and have been linked with Jamahl Mosley and Darvin Ham. It was also reported this week that the team have no interest in trading Zion Williamson this offseason.

The Pelicans have begun to make “significant” changes to their basketball operations, coaching, and medical staffs, multiple sources tell Shamit Dua of In The N.O. (Twitter links). Several staff members have been informed they won’t be brought back for next season, according to Dua, who says a “significant portion” of the basketball operations, coaching, and […]

The first year of the Joe Dumars era for the New Orleans Pelicans could not have gone any worse. The new front office regime believed that the team would be a contender for the 2025-26 season, which explains why they would trade an unprotected pick of theirs in the draft-night deal that brought Derik Queen […] The post 4 players Pelicans must trade after train-wreck season appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Pelicans forward Zion Williamson saw his name pop up in several trade rumors leading up to the February deadline, but he made it clear at his Monday press conference that he hopes to stay with the team that selected him first overall in the 2019 draft, according to Brett Martel of The Associated Press. “New […]

Williamson played in 62 games this season (and could have gotten to 65), averaging 21 points per game.

The New Orleans Pelicans missed the playoffs for the second straight season after finishing with a 26-56 record. The Pelicans have only been to the postseason twice in the last eight years, underscoring the mediocrity that has crippled them. If there was a positive to take from the team’s campaign, it was the fact that […] The post Pelicans’ Zion Williamson blames himself for 7-year playoff failure appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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