It looks like today’s the day. Or tomorrow? After Saturday’s news that the New Orleans Pelicans have cut the two most recent signees, Quinn Cook and Quincy Ford, the roster stands at 16. The final men standing are the two we knew would be here all along; not warm camp bodies, not vets who are around in case of injury, not scouting keep-arounds.
Lance Stephenson and Alonzo Gee play the same position nominally, but will provide very different things if they stick around. The easy thing to point out is that one of these men is a close friend of the franchise’s cornerstone and the other once blew in LeBron James’s ear.