Whether the Pelicans win the draft lottery and draft Cooper Flagg could ultimately decide if Zion Williamson is on the team next season.

NBA legend Joe Dumars said on Tuesday that New Orleans Pelicans ownership hasn’t told him to trade Zion Williamson.  Dumars is the Pelicans’ new president of basketball operations.  Williamson has played in just 45% of his possible games with the Pelicans since being the No.

Since then, the Mavs have had to weather a storm of fan outrage, terrible PR decisions and injuries to the team's two main stars, Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving. Given all of that, coach Jason Kidd pointed out that it was a wonder that the Mavs were somehow still playing on Friday, in the final play-in game for the No. 8 seed in the West.