December is usually the time to prepare for Christmas. For the New Orleans Pelicans, it’s the time to prepare for a difficult stretch of basketball.
The New Orleans Pelicans will play 10 of their 16 December games against Western Conference teams that made the playoffs last year. That includes three games against the Los Angeles Clippers, who have won 10 of the last 14 games played against the two squads.
Two of those games against the Clippers will be on NBA TV, the only two National TV games of the month. While the schedule has its West elites, it does also have beatable teams.