Pelicans’ NBA Draft Round 1 trade was ‘confusing’ | Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz | NBC Sports

Pelicans’ NBA Draft Round 1 trade was ‘confusing’ | Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz | NBC Sports

story, but what are the Pelicans doing the Pelicans?
Have not been irrelevant franchise their entire time in
the league. They have spoiled and soured,
whatever it is that Zion Williamson was supposed to be.
And one of their best runs in terms of leadership is when
David Griffin brought his credibility there, and he’s
since been fired, Stan Van Gundy. So Gone, don’t know what
that franchisees doing. Don’t know if anyone cares.
I mean, look, Joe Dumars comes in and he’s got an edict to kind
of like fix this thing, but not trade, Zion I guess, because
he’s come in and he’s kind of thrown his support behind Zion
Williamson and draft day. I just let me just say put it
this way. It was confusing trying to
figure out what they were trying to do on draft day because for
one, they They gave up a lot. I felt to move up to the ten.
Pick, go to the pick where they took Derek Queen, right?
Which it’s not lost upon me. That name is incredibly close to
Dairy Queen but they gave up unprotected first-round pick
next year which is a very very bold statement, right?
In the NBA. When you trade your unprotected
future first-round, pick for any future and your band.
Well this is a any Future, No Matter What, who you are, the
bet you’re saying, is I bet you this guy is going to be so good,
it won’t even matter. By the time, that pick happens
all, it’ll be something that we’re okay with giving up with
because this guy is so good, but the Pelicans are awful, they
don’t have an identity, they’re influx The rosters and clear and
they traded next year’s first round pick.
So in essence, you’re basically saying oh no right now this this
big Lena is going to change everything so that you don’t
care who you got. You got Cooper flag, right?
You got like a transformational player, you got their Queen, a
guy who a lot of people like has a lot of talent.
But Kind of, have you read The Scouting Report?
It’s almost like we’re talking about Zion Williamson.
Hey, conditioning is an issue. Hey is really skilled.
But is he a for, is you fought or everything?
You see about him is like, wait a second.
We already have one of those. So now, we got two guys who
don’t know what position they play and they can’t shoot well
enough, and they’re kind of the conditionings, an issue.
And we are betting that right away. It’s going to be perfect.
We’re not, this pic isn’t going to be any good to her
unprotected status as an issue. You Sure that if they would have
offered protection status on the pic Atlanta still would have
said yes at some point, right? And like you look at Dairy Queen
and what he’s able to provide. It really does sound.
That’s all right. Yeah.
It really does it. He can sponsor the Pelicans has
to sponsor and no choice. I want other names in sports
that give off restaurants. I’m gonna, I’ll get back to.
That’s a good one. Okay, that’s a good one.
Chris, you look at his skillset though and it’s like basically
just a less athletic. Williamson.
So now you’ve got dirt Dairy Queen running out there, and
you’ve got Zion Williamson, who wants Dairy Queen running out
there at the same time. The spacing is going to be
weird. They both kind of can’t shoot. The team is weird in
general and then you give up then you’re going to trade
xylem. So this year Dairy Queen playing at the Smoothie King
Center OH renessa tea I mean it’s perfect.
Yeah. Has no choice.
Can I sell? I can ask, can I ask a question
here? If you if the most interesting story from your
draft is about the Pelicans, you had an uninteresting draft right
now. The most interesting story like that, the main street was
about Cooper, flag went one. Wow, that’s amazing.
And then he spends a good stories, Bailey going to the
Jazz despite him not want to go to the Jazz and there are other
things. But Dan asked me, basketball question.
I answered a lot faster. I did ask you that question
because I am trying to figure out again.
Three shows in 24, Hours and I’m explaining to the audience why
it is that I’m not as informed as I need to be on the NBA
draft. If you’ve been listening to this show for a while, you
know that the draft in general, all the drafts are meat markets
that I find a bit offensive on how it is the owners figure out
how to control themselves by fixing the costs and then just
turning these all into auctions. Don’t like them as entertainment
and don’t like the information that comes out after them
because so many people are guessing but more so than ever
in basketball. All, when I got all these people
telling me how good the Heats draft pick is, when so many of
us have not watched the Heats draft pick, and I just asked the
mean before, the show, how do I pronounce this person’s name and
didn’t have confidence in the way he pronounced?
It know I should again I’m not blaming you.
You got it right? Yeah.
You got it, right? I didn’t have confidence in the
way that you pronounced it but as we go all over the world.
Now, something that was Already subjective becomes this.
Okay, because I know Bill Simmons is saying the Pelicans
making that pic, that’s one of the five dumbest trades of this
decade. But Jake Fisher is getting roasted, because after
the Blazers picked Yang Hansen from China, a nugget Source,
texted me, Chinese, yo kitsch. It took about of the stands than
he was in the stands with the commoners. They didn’t even put
him on the floor. He walked out with his white
suit. I’m saying if it was unknown before that, if the
draft was a subjective stupidity before that confounds, even the
executives who run the Pelicans and the executives who get fired
for this subjective thing that we treat as science.
How much more arbitrary is it now that you’re grabbing an
assortment of players because they’re more foreign players now
than there have ever been that. Literally no one who’s Watching
the draft has seen play at all.

Dan Le Batard and the Shipping Container break down why the New Orleans Pelicans made their unfavorable situation even worse after a ‘confusing’ trade up for Derik Queen in Round 1 of the 2025 NBA Draft. #NBCSports #NBA #DanLeBatard #NBADraft
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