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The New Orleans Pelicans have been teetering between being a playoff contender and a lottery team all season.
They have very much looked both parts at different times during the season, playing like contenders one game only to go back to looking like pretenders in the next.
The Pelicans only have 20 games remaining, and even if they win the majority of them, have no guarantee of even making the play-in games, much less the actual playoffs.
At this point, it is more likely that they end up in the lottery and FiveThirtyEight agrees, giving the Pels just a 26 percent chance of making the playoffs.