This offseason, the New Orleans Pelicans lost arguably one of the five best basketball players on the planet. In losing Anthony Davis, the Pelicans didn’t just lose a genuine superstar; they lost seven years of NBA experience.
One of the toughest things to do in the NBA is making the playoffs with a young team, and even tougher is to sustain that level of success for the foreseeable future. As evidenced in the interviews that J.J. Redick, David Griffin, and others have been giving recently, that’s exactly what the Pelicans are aiming for in the coming season.