Pelicans.com continues its look back at the 2015-16 season with player-by-player analysis of the team:
2015-16 OVERVIEW
New York rookie Kristaps Porzingis picked up several unusual descriptions in his first NBA season, including being called a “basketball unicorn” by Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant. From the New Orleans Pelicans’ perspective, Porzingis was inadvertently a one-man wreaker of havoc on March 28, accidentally causing season-ending injuries to Jrue Holiday and Alonzo Gee in the same game. Gee had made it through the first 73 games unscathed, but tore a quad muscle when he tried to dunk over Porzingis during the Pelicans’ 99-91 win (Holiday later sustained an orbital fracture when he ran into a Porzingis elbow on an inbounds play).