Two Wing Project Free Agents for the New Orleans Pelicans

With little cap space to utilize, the New Orleans Pelicans could take a chance projects that might benefit from a fresh start in a new city.

If you missed Tuesday’s profile of two very intriguing shooting guard possibilities for the New Orleans Pelicans, you can check it out here.

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.

The league is going to lose revenue, which could affect the salary cap, and there is no timeline for free agency or the draft.

There are a lot of possibilities: the NBA could finish out the season sometime late this summer. They could cancel it completely and just start fresh next year.

One interesting option would be a play-in tournament for the final seed in each conference.

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:

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.

The New Orleans Pelicans won’t have much money to spend if they extend Ingram, so they will be on the lookout for bargain veterans or young projects who they might be able to salvage.

For this installment we’ll look at two of the latter, a couple of guys who came into the league with big expectations that they haven’t met.

Could a move to the New Orleans Pelicans save their careers?