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Possible Free Agents for the New Orleans Pelicans: Readers’ Choice Recap

By Aaron Kellerstrass

HOUSTON, TEXAS - MARCH 05: Marcus Morris Sr. #31 of the LA Clippers could be a fit for the New Orleans Pelicans (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
HOUSTON, TEXAS - MARCH 05: Marcus Morris Sr. #31 of the LA Clippers could be a fit for the New Orleans Pelicans (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /
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Here is a recap of our weekly free agent profile series in which the readers chose potential free agents for the New Orleans Pelicans.

If you missed last week’s profiles of potential free agents for the New Orleans Pelicans, check out the recap here.

We also did a more detailed look at Fred VanVleet, which you can find here.

The NBA is trying to stay positive about a possible summer return to play from the COVID-19 hiatus, but it is becoming increasingly possible that the season will be cancelled.

If the season is truly over, it is unclear how the cancellation and the loss of revenue that comes with it, will affect things like the draft, free agency and the salary cap.

Basketball is the furthest thing from most people’s minds, but it’s good to take a break from the news cycle and talk some hoops.

When talking free agency, we decided to follow a loose set of rules:

  1. Unrestricted free agents only. There are too many moving parts to know how any of this will play out, but restricted free agency is always tricky.
  2. I’ll try to choose one free agent from the “premium” crop and one from a lower tier. This won’t always be the case, but we’ll try to mix it up.
  3. Money is not an object at this point. The New Orleans Pelicans will likely be capped out if they extend Brandon Ingram and don’t make a trade, but for these purposes, money will be more of an abstract concept.

This week, we got the reader’s involved, allowing the fans to choose which free agents to profile as possible fits for the New Orleans Pelicans.

The fans didn’t disappoint, choosing some interesting possibilities that include several intriguing bigs and a couple of guard possibilities.

The New Orleans Pelicans may not have much money to spend in the offseason, but for now we are mostly focusing on basketball fit.

Every guy on this list could bring something different to the New Orleans Pelicans, so the readers did an excellent job of choosing a varied crop of players.

Here is a recap of the readers’ choices for potential New Orleans Pelicans’ free agents.