NBA Trade Rumors: Do New Orleans Pelicans Need To Gut Roster?
The season for the New Orleans Pelicans is not turning out the way the coaching staff and fans expected it to be. With a maturing Anthony Davis, they were supposed to fight for a playoff spot like last season. But right now, they are near the bottom.
The team has not been mentioned in many NBA trade rumors but that does not mean they won't make any moves.
Expect them to be more active in many NBA trade rumors soon as New Orleans Pelicans general manager Dell Demps is not pleased with their progress.
"We will do what's needed to get this team on track," Demps said as per ESPN. "Obviously we dug ourselves a deep hole. And it's going to be tough for us to fight back into it this year. But we're always looking for the long term as well as the short term. We haven't given up on the season."
He also talked about how people bug him about their sinking campaign.
"People always ask about trades: 'Are you gonna make a trade? Are you gonna do something for the short term?'" he said in the interview. "I say, 'We have to do what makes sense.'"
Demps added, "We can't just make a trade just to make a trade, get rid of a guy and bring back lesser talent, or that's going to make the team deficient. So we're looking right now. But we gotta be smart, we gotta make sure that we're looking at the right things. But at the same time, we're gonna look internally, gonna look to see if we can find the right combinations out on the floor that can help us win right now."
Right now, the only name being dragged in some NBA trade rumors is Ryan Anderson who is providing good support for Anthony Davis.
But the team is not likely going to let him go.
"The Pelican player whose name surfaces the most among league sources is sharp shooting forward Ryan Anderson, but sources close to the team say that Anderson is incredibly valued inside the organization and it would take a monster offer for the Pelicans to consider moving him," Basketball Insiders wrote when the NBA trade rumor first surfaced in early December.
The New Orleans Pelicans are currently 12th in Western Conference with 13-26 record.
