New Orleans Pelicans

The New Orleans Pelicans are one of the only teams in the league still with enough cap space to pursue a guy like Dennis Schroder, but do they really want to? After acquiring Devonte’ Graham via a sign-and-trade from the Hornets, the Pelicans is going to be hard-capped for the first-time in their franchise’s history and they may not want to spend any more money as a result. 

However, adding Schroder to this group with Graham, Ingram, Williamson and Valanciunas could definitely help elevate the Pelicans back to the playoffs, which is why they could look to pursue Schroder in a smaller deal. 

With roughly $11M in cap space left, the Pelicans definitely could pursue Schroder if they chose to do so, but they would wind up adding him to a backcourt with Devonte’ Graham, Tomas Satoransky, Nickeil Alexander-Walker and last year’s rookie, Kira Lewis Jr.

The Pelicans want to see what they have in their young talents with NAW and Lewis Jr., so going after Schroder may not be in their minds right now. 

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Whether they pursue him or not, the Pelicans are one of the only teams in the league still having the capability to go after a guy like Dennis Schroder, which is why they are on this list. Overall though, this does not seem like a fit that is going to happen and the Pelicans probably will not look to make this work.