New Orleans Pelicans

The New Orleans Pelicans enter the 2026-27 NBA season as perhaps the league's most confounding team after largely standing pat despite a poor record.

The NBA announced on Tuesday that tickets are sold out for the 2027 NBA Paris and Manchester games set for January, featuring the San Antonio Spurs and the New Orleans Pelicans.

Identifying the Jordan Poole-CJ McCollum trade as a negative move for the New Orleans Pelicans? Yeah, I’d say that was a good call. The Sacramento Kings’ moves for Dennis Schröder and Dario Šarić were verifiable failures that resulted in one of the league’s worst records. And the Toronto Raptors’ extension for Jakob Poeltl has aged like milk. As for the other two, it’s a mixed bag. The jury is still out on the Miami Heat’s decision to salary dump Haywood Highsmith, given that the Brooklyn Net...

The New York Knicks are adding Ed Flynn to Mike Brown’s coaching staff, where he will take over responsibility for advising on replay challenges. Flynn spent the past three seasons with the New Orleans Pelicans, eventually becoming their head video coordinator. His official Knicks title will be assistant coach/special situations. During games, Flynn will review […] The post Mike Brown gets a new challenge adviser appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

The New Orleans Pelicans have signed forward Solomon Washington to a training camp deal, according to HoopsHype. Washington joins New Orleans after spending the 2025-26 season at Maryland, where he took on a significantly larger role following two seasons at Texas A&M. The forward averaged 9.8 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.0 assist in 25 games […] The post Pelicans sign Solomon Washington appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

The following players have been signed to training camp contracts, according to Paul Garcia of The Spot Up Shot (All Twitter links): Reese Dixon-Waters and Keonte Jones (Nuggets) Solomon Washington (Pelicans) Drake Allen (Pistons) All four players went undrafted in June, making them unrestricted free agents. They almost certainly signed Exhibit 10 deals, which would […]

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The Rockets land Trey Murphy III. The Hawks bring back Clint Capela. The Pelicans begin rebuilding around Jabari Smith Jr. and a stack of draft assets. That is the premise of a hypothetical three-team trade constructed by Jackson Caudell of Atlanta Hawks On SI. To be clear, this is Caudell’s proposal. It is not a reported […] The post NBA trade proposal sends Trey Murphy III to Rockets, Clint Capela back to Hawks appeared first on Hoops Wire.

The New Orleans Pelicans have waived guard Markquis Nowell. The Pelicans had signed Nowell to an Exhibit 10 contract earlier in the week. Nowell is expected to join the Laketown Squadron for the upcoming G League season.

NEW ORLEANS—Wondering aloud if there had been some kind of miscommunication on the part of the league, New Orleans Pelicans players told reporters Friday they couldn’t help but notice they hadn’t been included on the 2026-27 NBA schedule. “I checked the schedule on NBA.com twice, and I don’t see ‘Pelicans’ or ‘New Orleans’ anywhere, so there must have been some kind of mix-up,” said Pelicans small forward Trey Murphy III, noting that the team had received no communication from the league sinc...

The New Orleans Pelicans have signed guard Markquis Nowell to an Exhibit 10 contract. Nowell is expected to join the Laketown Squadron following the preseason. Nowell has previously played with the Toronto Raptors and Raptors 905 on a two-way deal. He then played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, before joining Baskonia in Spain. The 5-foot-7 guard averaged 5.9 points and 3.1 assists per game for Baskonia last season.

Former Raptors guard Markquis Nowell has signed a training camp deal with the Pelicans, tweets Paul Garcia of The Spot Up Shot. The former Kansas State star spent most of 2023/24 on a two-way contract with Toronto after going undrafted in 2023. Nowell played for Baskonia last season, averaging 5.7 points and 3.0 assists in […]

The Utah Jazz and guard Keyonte George have agreed to a five-year, $157.5 million contract extension, sources tell ESPN.

Pelicans The Pelicans rewarded Saddiq Bey for his bounce-back season. Now comes the harder question: What do they do with Jordan Poole? Terry Kimble of NBA on SI argues that New Orleans should end the experiment after one season, and the basketball case is fairly straightforward. Poole shot 37.2 percent from the field, struggled defensively […] The post NBA Notes: Pelicans, Jordan Poole, Pacers, Tyrese Haliburton, Warriors appeared first on Hoops Wire.

The New Orleans Pelicans and forward Saddiq Bey have agreed to a three-year, $55.5 million contract extension, his agents tell ESPN.

The Phoenix Suns, looking for depth in the wake of Mark Williams' injury, are signing center Duop Reath to a deal, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.

The Pelicans have signed and waived Aziz Bandaogo, Keith Smith reports for Spotrac (Twitter link). It’s unclear when the team signed the Senegalese big man, but he was waived on Wednesday. He likely signed an Exhibit 10 deal to receive a bonus worth up to $91K (on top of his typical salary) to play for […]

Willie Green, Garrett Temple, Joe Boylan, Drew Williamson, Mody Maor, Rob Fodor and Sam Hershberger will serve as assistant coaches under Mavericks first-year head coach Dusty May this season, the team announced in a press release. They will work alongside Nate Mitchell, who joins the organization in a dual role as an assistant coach and […]

Free agent point guard Elfrid Payton has agreed to sign with the Kings, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link), who reports that Payton will compete to earn a regular season roster spot in Sacramento. The 10th overall pick in the 2014 draft, Payton has made 524 regular season appearances for five NBA teams, […]

Here is a mock trade that lands the Pelicans the perfect frontcourt fit next to Zion Williamson while helping the Bucks build for the future.