Pelicans News Around the Web

Pelicans News Around the Web 5/17/23

Check out our daily collection of Pelicans news and notes from local and national reporters around the Internet on May 17, 2023.

No surprise, Pelicans claim 14th pick at draft lottery

With the best regular season record among the 14 teams that participated in Tuesday’s NBA draft lottery, the New Orleans Pelicans faced extremely long odds to win the drawing (0.5 percent) or even claim a top-four pick (2.4 percent).

Pelicans land the 14th pick. Here are 5 players they could target in next month's draft.

At Tuesday’s draft lottery, the pingpong balls did not bounce fortuitously for the Pelicans, who had the slimmest odds of any of the 14 participants of landing a top-four pick.

New Orleans Pelicans land 14th pick in 2023 NBA Draft

The 2023 NBA Draft Lottery results are officially in, and it looks like our New Orleans Pelicans will have the 14th overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft.