NBA Power Rankings 2025-26: Thunder Dominate Again, But Which Unexpected Team Crashes the Top Five?
27. New Orleans Pelicans
(2-7, last week No. 30)
Hamstring injuries are literally an annual occurrence now for Zion, who has missed time each of the past four seasons due to a hamstring issue, and is out again. New Orleans is 2-1 without him during this stretch (and the lone loss was to the Spurs on a night Trey Murphy III put up 41). As noted by Dan Feldman at Dunc’d On, three of the Pelicans’ first six losses were by 30+ points, an NBA record for fastest to that number (the record had been nine games by the 90-91 Nuggets, who went on to win 20 games for the season). The record for fewest games to four 30+ point losses is 17, for those who want to keep track


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