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The New Orleans Pelicans announced today that Pelicans.com, the Pelicans Mobile App presented by Smoothie King, and FOX Sports New Orleans are teaming up to broadcast all three of the team’s scrimmages leading up to the 2019-20 NBA regular season restart.

New Orleans’ first two scrimmages will be available via live stream on Pelicans.com or the Pelicans Mobile App courtesy of Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C. Streaming is limited to viewers within a 75-mile radius of the Smoothie King Center, per NBA regional broadcast rules. The livestream will be accompanied by the Pelicans radio broadcast on ESPN New Orleans 100.3 FM.

The Pelicans resume play with their first scrimmage, presented by Entergy, on Wednesday, July 22 against the Brooklyn Nets. New Orleans’ second scrimmage, presented by Chevron, is scheduled for Saturday, July 25 versus the Denver Nuggets.

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FOX Sports New Orleans will televise the final scrimmage on Monday, July 27 against the Milwaukee Bucks. Local television broadcasts will originate from the Smoothie King Center with play-by-play announcer Joel Meyers, color analyst Antonio Daniels and sideline reporter Jennifer Hale calling the games remotely.

Additionally, Pelicans games will be streamed on FOX Sports GO, which is currently available on mobile and tablet devices, including iOS and Android as well as foxsportsgo.com. FOX Sports GO is also available on connected devices including, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku Players and Roku TV, and Xbox One. Fans can download the app for free from the iTunes App Store,  Google Play,  Amazon App Store, Roku App Store, XBOX One App Store and Windows App Store.

ESPN Radio New Orleans 100.3 FM, the team’s radio flagship station and home of the Pelicans Radio Network presented by Smoothie King, will broadcast the team’s three scrimmages in addition to all eight seeding games remotely from the Smoothie King Center with play-by-play announcer Todd Graffagnini, color analyst John DeShazier and sideline reporter Caroline Gonzalez. ESPN Radio New Orleans 100.3 FM will also feature pregame and postgame shows with studio host Daniel Sallerson.

ESPN Radio New Orleans 100.3 FM will continue to air “Pelicans Weekly” on Thursday nights at 6:00 p.m. CT. The thirty-minute show hosted by Todd Graffagnini will feature exclusive interviews with Pelicans coaches, executives, and players, as well as guests from around the league.

New Orleans Pelicans Seeding Game Schedule

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New Orleans Pelicans announce broadcast schedule for 2019-20 NBA Restart scrimmages

A look inside the NBA Orlando bubble with the Pelicans team physician

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Amid a difficult start to this season, including a franchise-record 13-game losing streak, his players always had his back. Now he wants to have theirs.

During a Tuesday morning conference call, New Orleans fifth-year head coach Alvin Gentry was asked if he considered not going to Orlando for next month’s resumption of the NBA season, based on COVID-19 concerns related to his age of 65. Gentry, who is the league’s third-oldest coach, has never wavered. Not after how the New Orleans Pelicans’ roller-coaster, 2019-20 season has unfolded.

“To be honest, we had a struggle (to start the season),” Gentry said, alluding to a 7-23 record through Dec. 20. “We lost 13 straight games. Usually when that happens in this league, or any other league, there is a good chance that the players just kind of quit on you. That never happened here. So they were in the foxhole and stood by me – I want to do the same thing for them. I want to be there for them. I want to be in Orlando and I want to give us the opportunity to do well in this situation.”

When New Orleans (28-36, 3.5 games out of eighth place) resumes play July 30 vs. Utah, the Pelicans will begin their attempt to complete the revised regular season in eighth or ninth place in the Western Conference, which would make them eligible for a play-in round. The winner of the play-in round will advance to the West playoffs and face the No. 1 seed, most likely the Los Angeles Lakers. If the Pelicans get that far, it would also mean a 14th consecutive postseason trip for guard JJ Redick.

For his part, Gentry wants to see the process through to whenever his team’s ’19-20 campaign concludes. The Pelicans are attempting to become just the fourth team in NBA history to reach the playoffs despite  a 13-game losing streak, as well as the fourth playoff club to begin the regular season at 7-23. No team in NBA history has ever accomplished both.

In addition to his own motivation to be present in Central Florida, Gentry looks forward to the challenge of New Orleans trying to build on what was an excellent stretch from Christmas through mid-March. The Pelicans went 20-13 after the holiday, ranking 10th in the NBA in winning percentage (60.6) over that timeframe.

“My plans right now are to be with the team and I’m looking forward to it, said Gentry, who’ll be able to add to career tally of 508 victories. “As the season was put on hiatus, we were playing really good basketball. Hopefully we can get back to that.”

Earlier Tuesday, Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations David Griffin told media that three New Orleans players tested positive for COVID-19 on the first day of testing. Since then, there have been no new positive tests, but that trio of players are now in self-isolation and being tested daily. They will be able to return to participation only after they test negative twice consecutively.

NBA teams are not allowed to conduct 5-on-5 workouts or fullcourt games right now, not doing so until after the 22 invited clubs arrive in Orlando. Gentry said every NBA coaching staff will need to evaluate the physical shape of his players at that stage.

“The first few days of (full-team) practice, we’re going to have to see where our guys are, from a conditioning standpoint,” he said. “A lot of our guys have been working their butts off. I think they knew eventually this day was going to come. I don’t think we’ve had anyone just laying around on the couch, so it’s within them to keep themselves in shape. That’s what they’ve done their whole careers. It may not be exactly where we want to have them, but all of these guys have been working pretty hard.”

The Pelicans hope to build on their performance over their last 30-plus games, a stretch that saw them perform as a top offensive club, improve significantly defensively and put one of the NBA’s best starting lineups on the court.

“Our depth was beginning to show before this thing happened,” Gentry said of the NBA’s March 11 stoppage. “We had played really good basketball on the road. Our starters and Zion (Williamson) were beginning to feel a chemistry and their roles were so well-defined by themselves. We had guys come in off the bench that understood that they may play (varied minutes from game to game). Our guys came to the understanding that winning had to be the No. 1 thing. All of the other stuff had to be put to the backburner. We were headed in that direction and playing good basketball.”

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