The New Orleans Pelicans reside in a city that is famous for being the birthplace of jazz music. Before I became a hardcore basketball junky, I spent over decade playing in band and one of the things that I had the pleasure of doing was playing in a jazz band. Seeing as New Orleans is where jazz music originated (and August is slow in terms of actual basketball things going on), let’s have some fun and associate Pelicans players with different styles of jazz.
RAGTIME
Ragtime music was one of the first original styles of jazz and is known for being the accompaniment to a lot of dancing.