The New Orleans Pelicans are 0-6 to start the season. Of those six losses, three have been by at least 30 points. No team in NBA history has accumulated three 30-point losses this early in a season.
The Pelicans rank 27th in offensive rating and 29th in defensive rating. They are playing “an unserious brand of basketball,” longtime Pelicans reporter Will Guillory decreed Sunday evening. The players “seem to have given up on” head coach Willie Green, per Rod Walker at NOLA.com, who wondered if the coach’s time was up. Green, the coach since 2021 and a holdover from a previous front-office regime, nevertheless kept his job during the offseason, which would have been the most natural time to replace him.
