The New Orleans Pelicans should eye these six games as opportunities to slowly start earning respect from the NBA schedule makers and league broadcast partners.
The New Orleans Pelicans finally know their 2023-24 NBA Regular Season schedule. They will be featured four times on ESPN, twice on TNT, and six times on NBA TV.
The television executives used the schedule to express their ‘Zion Williamson fatigue’ that has built up over the past few seasons. Not one NBA In-Season Tournament group stage game will be nationally televised, even though there are visual evidence updates on Williamson’s readiness. No matter how you slice it, the Pelicans are being disrespected here. And in order to correct it, they should eye these six games as opportunities to slowly start earning respect from the NBA schedule makers and league broadcast partners.