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Team

New Orleans Pelicans

2025-26Current

Season snapshot

Struggling regular season results · mixed competitive timeline

NOP finished 26-56 (0.317) with 0 playoff game(s). Its governed core had 12 players and a rotation-weighted age of 24.1. The team had 2 critical/structural basketball problem(s), 1 future pick-control row(s), and 66.7% future core salary schedule coverage. This describes the planning position; it does not recommend a direction.

Record

26-56

Playoff games

Playoff wins

Core age

24.1

Primary creator

Jeremiah Fears

Current decision lanes

Transactions, injuries, rumors and staff changes are separate evidence lanes — never merged.

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TransactionHunter Dickinsonwaiver exitAug 18, 2026Completed

Two-way contract waived. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.

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TransactionMalik Diatwo way signingAug 18, 2026Completed

Undrafted player signed to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Identity resolved to a source-backed provisional person in nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825; stable external identifier remains a separate enrichment field. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.

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Injuries & availability

Governed medical episodes — evidence about players, separate from team decisions.

Player	Injury	Body part	Out	Returned	Severity
Herbert Jones	head migraine	head	Dec 21, 2025 → Dec 22, 2025	not recorded	—
Trey Murphy III	right elbow soreness	elbow	Nov 28, 2025 → Dec 2, 2025	Dec 2, 2025	—
Kevon Looney	right heel contusion	heel	Nov 23, 2025 → Nov 24, 2025

Last observed season rotation

Players with actual NBA minutes for the latest eligible season; not a complete current registration ledger.

Player	Role	Strongest functions	Minutes	On/Off	Stab. RAPM	Evidence
Trey Murphy III	—	—	2,305	—	—	metrics unavailable
Saddiq Bey	—	—	2,206	—	—

On/Off and stabilized RAPM are separate impact lanes on a per-100 scale — never combined into one grade. A dash means evidence is unavailable, not zero.

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Basketball functions

Eleven separate function readings — need, coverage and redundancy stay apart; no team score.

CreationMonitor Not Priority

Middle Tier Distributed · led by Zion Williamson, then Derik Queen

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NOP 2025-26 Creation: production percentile 45.8; largest contributor Zion Williamson (20.7% of above-replacement production); monitor_not_priority.

Defensive event creationMonitor Not Priority

Middle Tier Distributed · led by Herbert Jones, then Jeremiah Fears

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Shot creation

Team performance and shot-creation architecture.

NOP ranked 3 of 30 in self-created shot share (51.3%), 30 of 30 in self-created eFG, and 15 of 30 in assisted eFG. Primary creator: Jeremiah Fears. Team-level creator attribution: 96.8%. Creation profile: self creation heavy; dependency: distributed creation; shotmaking: mixed shotmaking.

Self-created FGA share

51.3%

Self-created eFG

47.1%

Assisted eFG

58.6%

Jeremiah Fears share

17.9%

Contracts & cap

Selected player charges under the serving definition — not full cap legality.

SupportedTax Team Below First Apron Threshold

Selected player charges

$191.2M

Share of cap

124%

Tax line

$3.30M over

First apron

$4.75M under

Second apron

$16.6M under

NOP 2025-26 carried $191,196,562 of selected player charges (123.6% of the cap), placing it in tax to first apron on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was creation at 22.5% of the cap; highest measured need was passing. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.

Future core salary schedule

Upcoming decisions

Governed contract events ahead — dates carry their honest quality.

Saddiq Beycontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Saddiq Bey has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Herbert Jonescontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Herbert Jones has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Jordan Poolecontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Jordan Poole has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Jordan Hawkinscontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Jordan Hawkins has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Future assets

Draft-control coverage: provisional future pick control tradability unresolved. Partial coverage renders as partial — never as a zero-asset team.

2027 round 1Tradability not confirmed

NOP has a provisional-control row for the 2027 1-round pick as of 2026-06-30. Tradability is not confirmed.

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Organization

Basketball authority and staff context — descriptive, never a grade.

Authority regimeNov 15, 2025 → present

CoverageResolved

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Supporting relations (7)

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