After sitting through approximately 5 hours of the NBA draft, it was announced the Pelicans had selected Branden Dawson with the 56th pick of the 2015 NBA draft. Not ten minutes later, it was confirmed the pick and the rights to Dawson had been sold to the Los Angeles Clippers.
The sequence of the events made for a lot of unhappy fans, some were even outraged. Besides wasting a good deal of personal time, many were upset to see the organization have a reunion with their old pal, cash considerations.