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Pelicans News Around the Web (10-11-2019)

Pelicans Radio interview with Nickeil Alexander-Walker - October 9, 2019

Todd Graffagnini and Daniel Sallerson speak with rookie Nickeil Alexander-Walker after he leads the charge in the final minutes for the Pelicans to defeat the Chicago Bulls 127-125 in the United Center. Alexander-Walker scored 10 of his 13 points in the final 4:14 minutes of play.

New Orleans Pelicans Weekly Show - October 10, 2019

Todd Graffagnini interviews head coach Alvin Gentry and Caroline Gonzalez sits down with Pelicans' big man, Jahlil Okafor. Listen in.

Zion Williamson (fresh off 29-point performance) and new-look Pelicans make preseason home debut Friday

It's just the preseason, but Zion Williamson has wasted little time showing what all of the hype has been about.

Josh Hart: ‘If you embrace New Orleans, it will embrace you tenfold’

Whenever a major NBA trade happens in 2019, basketball fans and media instantly head to social media, to see if the players involved have any reaction to the news. As New Orleans hoops aficionados scanned @JoshHart on Twitter in mid-June – less than 24 hours after he was involved in a blockbuster trade – many were taken aback to see Hart’s avatar had already been changed to a photo of him wearing a navy blue Pelicans shirt.

Pelicans 2019 preseason profile: Brandon Ingram

When you’re trying to rebuild a roster, but many of your future draft picks have already been traded, creativity is critical. For Brooklyn’s front office earlier this decade, that meant identifying young players with potential on other NBA rosters, in the hopes of prying them loose via trade. One of the names at the top of the Nets’ and assistant general manager Trajan Langdon’s most-wanted list was Brandon Ingram.

One of these Pelicans rookies is not like the others (and we don’t mean Zion)

NEW ORLEANS — Nicolo Melli isn’t like most NBA rookies.