Despite subtle personnel changes, the New Orleans Pelicans are on pace to significantly improve upon their league-leading 351 games missed to injury from one year ago, yet one wouldn’t know it by all the snide remarks that continue to be made in reference to the team’s medical and training staffs.
The Pelicans sport an 18-27 record through the first 45 games of the season, just a difference of one game from last year’s 17-28 mark through the same part of the schedule. Consequently, it’s not surprising that many have overlooked or don’t care to talk about New Orleans missed-games-to-injury tally, especially with the team starting slowly out of the gates without Jrue Holiday or Tyreke Evans.