Last week, I wrote about the Pelicans’ $3.85 million trade exception obtained via sending Quincy Pondexter to the Bulls last summer in a move to clear salary. In it, I mentioned that the team would likely only use it if Boogie ended up elsewhere and the Pelicans didn’t sign-and-trade him for a player (or players) with similar salary.
Well, here we are.
One Julius Randle non-taxpayer MLE signing and one Elfrid Payton bi-annual exception signing later, the Pelicans are suddenly left with minimum contracts as their only remaining resources to upgrade the roster via free agency.