{"id":885540,"date":"2026-09-06T12:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885540\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:56:20","slug":"5-nba-teams-that-blew-it-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885540\/","title":{"rendered":"5 NBA Teams That Blew It This Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">There&#8217;s nothing quite like a team that seems to operate without rhyme or reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The New Orleans Pelicans are more infuriating than the Sacramento Kings because they&#8217;re not paralyzingly aimless. They have desirable players who could net them the assets necessary to map out a new direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Bringing back DeAndre Jordan and taking a flier on Bennedict Mathurin that will <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nba\/new-orleans-pelicans\/tax\">vault the Pelicans into the tax<\/a> can&#8217;t be your big summer splashes coming off a season in which you won 26 games. Even if they are banking on more availability from Dejounte Murray and Herb Jones, this roster&#8217;s ceiling maxes out at &#8220;probably better than the Kings.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Never mind contrasting timelines. The pieces don&#8217;t fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">New Orleans simultaneously has too many bigs and no defensive anchor at center. Properly developing Derik Queen and Jeremiah Fears is impossible with Zion Williamson and the team&#8217;s lack of shooting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Shopping Zion, Jones, Trey Murphy III, Saddiq Bey, et al. should have been this summer&#8217;s primary objective. Failing that, the Pelicans needed to use assets to upgrade the roster&#8217;s talent and congruence. Granted, this would have been the wrong move. But it would have at least hinted at an intended direction\u2014something New Orleans can&#8217;t even pretend to have now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s nothing quite like a team that seems to operate without rhyme or reason. The New Orleans Pelicans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-885540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}