Veteran guard CJ McCollum has exited the NBA’s COVID-19 protocols and will be available to play for the Pelicans on Tuesday vs. Phoenix, the team announced today (via Twitter).
McCollum entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols last Thursday and missed New Orleans’ games against Charlotte on Friday and Houston on Sunday.
The Pelicans split those games and remain well positioned to qualify for the play-in tournament in the Western Conference. At 28-40, they’re the No. 10 seed, one game behind the No. 9 Lakers (29-39) and 1.5 games up on the No. 11 Trail Blazers (26-41).
Devonte’ Graham entered the Pelicans’ starting lineup during McCollum’s two-game absence, but figures to return to the second unit on Tuesday. Graham and Jose Alvarado will likely play reduced roles after seeing a bump in minutes with McCollum out.
The CHA guards whipped them including IThomas, in the absence of the starting Pel guards.
Next game Kevin Porter could not take advantage and HOU successfully tanked lol.
What happened to Porter…
Porter is like that, he looks amazing in 3-5 games in a row, people start the get their hopes up and then he drops bricks and turnovers non stop for a few games. He’s good but he’s not a starting PG and with the way Green has played post AS weekend he won’t get to start at the SG. He’s a very good player but he needs to be coming off the bench.
But the real reason Houston were destroyed was because of the big man game. Valanciunas and Hayes were killing it in the paint and with Sengun and Wood, the D is non existent.
NOLA has size, even with Mccollum.
1.5, 3, 3.5, 4.5, 5 perhaps