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NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Pelicans today announced that the team has waived forward Alonzo Gee.

Gee, 6-6, 225, has appeared in 73 career games with New Orleans, averaging 4.5 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.0 assists and 0.9 steals in 22.4 minutes per game. Gee was originally signed by New Orleans on July 16, 2015.

Undrafted in 2009 out of the University of Alabama, Gee has appeared in 404 career regular season games with Washington, San Antonio, Cleveland, Denver, Portland and New Orleans, holding averages of 6.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 0.9 steals in 22.2 minutes per contest.

New Orleans’ roster now stands at 15. Below is the Pelicans’ opening night roster.

2016-17 PELICANS ROSTER (subject to change)

Head Coach:Alvin Gentry, Appalachian State

Associate Head Coach:Darren Erman, Emory University

Assistant Coaches:Robert Pack, USCPhil Weber, N.C. StateFred Vinson, Georgia TechKevin Hanson, San DiegoJamelle McMillan, Arizona StateElvis Valcarcel, Rutgers

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NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Pelicans today announced that the team has signed 2016 second round draft pick Cheick Diallo and re-signed guard/forward Alonzo Gee. Per team policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.

Diallo, 6-9, 220, was the 33rd overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft out of the University of Kansas. His rights were acquired from the Los Angeles Clippers in a draft night transaction where New Orleans sent the 39th (David Michineau, 6-3, 175, France) and 40th (Diamond Stone, 6-11, 255, Maryland) overall selections to the Clippers. In his lone season at Kansas, Diallo, averaged 3.0 points and 2.5 rebounds in 7.5 minutes per game.

“We targeted Cheick early in the draft process and believe he will become a good NBA player,” said Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations/General Manager Dell Demps. “Cheick is a self-driven, relentless worker that is determined to succeed. He showed us flashes in Summer League and we feel like he will develop into a player that will impact winning."

Diallo appeared in five games for the Pelicans during the 2016 Samsung NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, averaging 10.2 points, 9.4 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.

Gee, 6-6, 225, who was originally signed by New Orleans on July 16, 2015, appeared in 73 games (38 starts) for the Pelicans during the 2015-16 season, averaging 4.5 points while shooting .518 from the field, 3.4 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 22.4 minutes per game.

“Alonzo is someone that comes to work every day and gives you all that he has every time he steps on the floor,” stated Demps. “He’s a tough, competitive basketball player that can defend multiple positions. We’re really happy to welcome him back to the Pelicans.”

Undrafted in 2009, the University of Alabama product has appeared in 404 career regular season games with Washington, San Antonio, Cleveland, Denver, Portland and New Orleans, holding averages of 6.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 0.9 steals in 22.2 minutes per contest.

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Pelicans.com continues its look back at the 2015-16 season with player-by-player analysis of the team:

2015-16 OVERVIEW
New York rookie Kristaps Porzingis picked up several unusual descriptions in his first NBA season, including being called a “basketball unicorn” by Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant. From the New Orleans Pelicans’ perspective, Porzingis was inadvertently a one-man wreaker of havoc on March 28, accidentally causing season-ending injuries to Jrue Holiday and Alonzo Gee in the same game. Gee had made it through the first 73 games unscathed, but tore a quad muscle when he tried to dunk over Porzingis during the Pelicans’ 99-91 win (Holiday later sustained an orbital fracture when he ran into a Porzingis elbow on an inbounds play).

“It was tough, because I felt like I was just getting comfortable out there,” Gee said on the April 4 edition of the Black & Blue Report. “We were playing well, and I ended up getting hurt.

“I didn’t know what (the ruptured right quad injury) was. The doctors told me I tore a muscle in my quad. It’s a lot of pain.”

“I never experienced anything like this before,” Gee said of NOLA’s large number of injuries. “I’ve never been hurt in my career. To go through something like this, it’s crazy. We try our best to stay on the floor, (but) things happen. It’s been a tough year.”

Signed by New Orleans last summer for additional wing depth, Gee’s role increased intermittently over the course of the season, topped by starting all 15 games in December. As a variety of Pelicans were shuffled in and out of the mix based on health, Gee started at least three times in every month prior to his season-ending injury. The forward also unexpectedly ended up logging 14 percent of his minutes at shooting guard, according to play-by-play data from Basketball-Reference.com.

Gee’s elite athleticism makes him a tough defender and a formidable finisher of plays around the rim, but he’s not relied upon heavily for offensive production. However, in the two games before the collision with Porzingis, he scored 18 and 17 points, his top offensive outings of 2015-16.
“I started getting to the basket,” he explained of the late-season uptick. “I don’t know why it kept getting easier and easier for me, but that’s what I did – put my head down and go to the basket every time I get the ball.”

Gee said the timetable for returning to the hardwood from his quad injury was 6-8 weeks, meaning he should be 100 percent soon. The former D-Leaguer, who’s been on six different NBA teams, has a player option for next season. If he opts in, he’ll be under contract with New Orleans. Otherwise, he’ll become a free agent.

#3, Nov. 22: New Orleans 122, Phoenix 116
Making his sixth start of the season, Gee delivered one of his best all-around games while logging 38 minutes vs. the Suns. The Alabama product had eight points, seven rebounds and a season-high five assists, as New Orleans won a second straight game after starting 1-11.

#2, March 24: Indiana 92, New Orleans 84
Gee helped keep a severely undermanned Pelicans team competitive by dropping in 17 points, the most he’d scored in a game since April 2013, when he tallied 19 points for Cleveland. Two nights later, Gee registered a season-high 18 points vs. Toronto.

#1, Jan. 23: New Orleans 116, Milwaukee 99
Gee’s 12 points were the most he scored in a New Orleans victory. He also grabbed six rebounds and dished out three assists in the Pelicans’ third straight win to open a seven-game homestand.

51.8: Field-goal percentage for Gee, the best of his career. His previous top season in that category was a rate of 47.5 as a Washington rookie. The 51.8 percent was second-best on the Pelicans in the regular season, behind only Omer Asik’s 53.3.

65: Dunks in 2015-16 for Gee, representing about 21 percent of his 305 baskets. By comparison, Anthony Davis threw down 147 slams out of 560 hoops, or 26 percent.

68.7: Percentage of Gee’s two-point baskets that were assisted in 2015-16, the highest rate of his seven-year NBA career. Particularly during the latter portion of the season, New Orleans’ guards found Gee for many easy scores.

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