In case you haven’t heard, it’s being said that the New Orleans Pelicans have a real bright future. The talking heads have been going on about it all season. Sure there have been some starts and stops. Zion Williamson couldn’t start the season and the Pelicans limped out of the gate. But, he returned a little more than halfway through the season and all the analytics and predictive simulations went crazy. The Pelicans were great with Zion plus they had one of the easiest remaining schedules in the entire NBA. Surely they would go on a tear and make the playoffs.