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New Orleans Pelicans: The Pels gave up on Frank Jackson too soon

Frank Jackson #5 of the Detroit Pistons (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

The New Orleans Pelicans let Frank Jackson walk at the end of last season and most fans didn’t care.

I was one of the few who seemed to think Jackson was a player and hoped the Pelicans would re-sign him to a modest deal in the offseason to be a backup combo guard off the bench.

I get why the Pels did it. At the time, they had a glut of guards and added Kira Lewis Jr. in the draft, so having another tweener combo guard did not seem like a priority.