When the bars open back up in New Orleans, here’s a trivia question you can use to stump your basketball-loving friends: Among current Pelicans players besides Zion Williamson (24.5 ppg), who has the highest career scoring average as an NBA starter? Surprisingly, the answer isn’t 2020 All-Star forward Brandon Ingram (19.0). It’s not proven veteran guards Eric Bledsoe (16.6), JJ Redick (16.2) or Lonzo Ball (11.5), either. Granted, he’s only started five times in his brief NBA career, but the correct response to that query is actually second-year guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker (21.4), who’s consistently delivered when asked to join New Orleans’ first string.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker keeps making major impact as fill-in starter for Pelicans
