Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast. I'm your host, San Vassini, today, Brace Simon and I are

going to continue our offseason preview series where we go through all of the big decisions

facing every NBA team this summer. Today, we're talking about a team that has made a lot of

changes already, could make some changes this summer as well. The New Orleans Pelicans, they have number seven overall pick, they have Zion Williamson,

they have Herb Jones, Trey Murphy, a number of really interesting players to dive into,

certainly C.J. McCollum.

But before we do that, shout out to all you guys for subscribing to the channel.

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the show like a video hit the subscribe button thank you all so much bryce let's talk about

the pelicans now because they've hired joe dumars i've gotten what i ask people around the league a healthy degree of questioning

about this hire. Just because Joe Dumars has not done this for a while in terms of running a team.

He's been in the league office. He was not very good at the end of the Pistons run. Like, we can just say

that, right? Like, it's okay.

I'm interested to see how this goes.

They obviously bring in Troy Weaver, another person that there's a healthy degree of skepticism

about league-wide.

I don't know what to make of this right now in terms of where the pelicans are headed.

And we're going to dive into all of it.

There are 95 questions we have to answer. But Bryce, when you think about the pelicans entering

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