My wife's a real housewives fan and I normally zone out but I look up, see this, made her pause it.

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I have basically been a lifelong Pelicans fan since I was 7 in 2012. This was because my family was big UK fans, and my introduction to basketball was Anthony Davis. The Pelicans are how I fell in love with basketball, I still have found memories of the Davis and Holiday Pelicans. Jrue gave me my favorite archetype to this day.

When we traded them to Milwake and LA and built a new team, I was really hopeful. The furthest we made it since then was a first round sweep. Zion is a bust. The team can't finish a game. Our defense, even though noticeably better, is still bad, but it's still super early in the season, so I have hope.

That all being said, I have made up my mind, I don't think I will ever stop being a Pelicans fan. I have no ties to the city, but my fondest basketball memories are tied to this team. They may be ass but they're our ass.

Strange things happen in the NBA. There are countless funky plays and weird inexplicable decisions. It’s early, but the Pelicans are responsible for one that I can’t stop thinking about. It happened during the first quarter of New Orleans’s loss at Utah on Friday night, when Jordan Poole, Zion Williamson, Derik Queen, Saddiq Bey, and Bennedict Mathurin all shared the floor. You read that right. These five players were purposefully instructed to work together, as in, be on the court at the same time. It was remarkable. It was bewildering. It was a basketball lineup that could not possibly be less complementary on offense or ineffective on defense. I like to rewatch horror movies that still disturb me on every viewing; similarly, I am desperate to see this again. 

I'm back with another dose of that sweet, sweet copium.

It has been done; we're still in contention