Zion Williamson #1 of the New Orleans Pelicans (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans will travel to Denver tonight to take on MVP candidate Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.
The Pelicans are 3.5 games behind the Warriors for the 10th spot and a chance at the play-in tournament with 11 games left in the season, so the odds are stacked against them even though they still have three games left against Golden State.
The mere possibility of the play-in tournament has given these games some meaning that they wouldn’t normally have, so at the very least the New Orleans Pelicans are getting some high-pressure reps for their young players.