In this installment of our New Orleans Pelicans’ potential free agent series, we’ll take a look at two intriguing shooting guards that might be a good fit.
If you missed the New Orleans Pelicans “Reader’s Choice” free agent profiles, you can catch up with them here.
The offseason possibilities for the New Orleans Pelicans range from “running it back” to “making a big trade” to “adding to the core.”
With the league in hiatus and a chance it will be cancelled entirely, teams like the New Orleans Pelicans are bracing for one of the wildest offseasons of all time.
As of how, it is not clear how the league will deal with the draft, free agency or the fallout the lack of revenue will have on the salary cap.
With so much up in the air, it is almost impossible to guess what the New Orleans Pelicans will do when and if the NBA resumes its normal operations.
Here are a loose set of guidelines that we’ll be following for our free agent series:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
If the New Orleans Pelicans do extend Ingram, they won’t have much cap space left barring a trade, but a lot can happen between now and then.
For this installment we’ll look at two veteran shooting guards who could both bring different assets to the New Orleans Pelicans next season.