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What We Know About the Potential Pelicans/Okafor Deal
By Jim Adair
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Rumors started swirling fast and furious around Jahlil Okafor and the New Orleans Pelicans a little earlier today, and here’s where it seems to stand now: The Sixers and Pelicans looked like they were headed towards a deal to send Okafor to the Pelicans in exchange for the contract of Alexis Ajinca and a lottery protected first rounder in 2018. The Sixers were asking for the protection to be top-5 or top-10, rather than lottery protected. The Pelicans didn’t want to move on that. The Sixers possibly want the Pelicans to add Jrue Holiday – the first casualty of The Process – in the deal, and things have slowed down for now. And the Pelicans are working the league.
We’ll have more on the potential deal as more maneuvering goes down.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.