The most iconic sneaker brand in basketball just found its newest members, and foremost among them is none other than the Celtics’ young franchise player, Jayson Tatum.

Josh Hart hasn’t officially been traded to the New Orleans Pelicans just yet, but he is already moving on.

Well, the moment we had waited a few agonizing hours for finally arrived around 10 PM (central) as the Bucks selected USC’s Kevin Porter Jr. with the 30th overall pick in last night’s draft.

With the 17th pick of the 2019 NBA Draft, the New Orleans Pelicans selected Nickeil Alexander-Walker, a highly regarded shooter, out of Virginia Tech.

The Golden State Warriors selected three players in the 2019 NBA Draft, but they weren’t done there. After the draft concluded, the Warriors jumped into the mass of teams jockeying to sign the best undrafted players.

When the New Orleans Pelicans won the 2019 NBA Draft Lottery, it was a bit of a shock. They had the seventh-best odds (6 percent) of doing so, which are relatively good, but their 33-49 record is a far cry from what was expected before the season began. The Anthony Davis-fueled tumult, and the games it caused the star forward to miss, was aided by early season injuries, the trade of Nikola Mirotic to Milwaukee, and the season-ending abdominal injury to Jrue Holiday down the stretch in bringing that record so far down.

“Steph gonna Steph”

The last time the New Orleans Pelicans (then the Hornets) drafted a generational superstar No. 1 overall, it was Anthony Davis. The team’s general manager, Dell Demps, proceeded to execute a fairly unique plan: build a high-end team around Davis over the ensuing years without staying in the NBA Draft lottery. He’d surround Davis not with similarly young players who would rise together into a beautiful cake of realized talent, but with so-called “young veterans” — established, decent-to-good players who could get Davis into the playoffs early and often in the Pels’ quest to convince the eventual superstar to eventually stay in town after his second contract concluded.