[Highlight] Derik Queen LOB FROM THE LOGO
Trade Zion and build around this kid.
What would Zion even get in a trade nowadays?
Anthony davis
This would be objectively the funniest possible trade
No it wouldn’t. You know what would
Shump + TT + Nets pick?
I think we have some room to squeeze in our boy, Cash Considerations
What, no love for the people photocopier?
THROWBACKBABY
Zion for Luka? Fine.
Which is fatter?
(I feel mean lol)
Austin Reaves?
zion for a Christmas tree?
Zion with Texas BBQ sounds like a terrible idea
Well at least Zion would be happy
As would a handful of BBQ establishments
Wait, is the New Orleans food scene not it for him? I’ve always wanted to go there to try their food. Specifically viet cajun food.
Our food kicks ass. Fantastic Vietnamese food as well. The most popular Mardi gras king cake is from a vietnamese bakery too.
I make my Vietnamese coffee with café du monde. Thing hits so good every time. I’m getting sad a can is like \(10 here now though. Felt like it was only \)8 last year.
Texas BBIQ.
AD got so much more value than Zion. I’m not even exaggerating.
You mean you wouldn’t want to pay him $40 million for 40 games/season?
That’s Kangs’ music…
Light that fkn beam, bro!
Fuck it, I would do a deal around Zion and Zach.
farm to fork baby!
I heard Saudi wants to start their own basketball league
His contract has that non guarantee clause he didn’t make iirc. He could genuinely have solid value as either an expiring or a guy a team takes a swing on then cuts.
Yeah basically just 20% of his contract is guaranteed so you could basically open up 80% of a max contract slot by trading for him and then cutting him
A cup of chicory coffee and a beignet.
How much would they have to add to get Herro? I think his only hope to recover his career is going somewhere that won’t put up with him half assing it. Or maybe for Vassell?
Probably some salary relief and a weak pick or two. Could get a young player with some not great play so far who they could buy low on.
Like if we some reason decided to do it we could give up like Grant, Thybulle, Wesley, and some shit picks (that’s no where near enough from us, and I wouldn’t like Zion).
It literally doesn’t matter. Just get what you can and move on.
Not as much as NO would hope to get.
I got a box of pasta and three tubes of toothpaste. Think that’s enough?
Kuminga + Podz?
I think he’s got almost no value right now. This was supposed to be Zion’s healthy year. He lost weight. Still gets hurt. At this point, he’s a walking injury, worse than porzingis.
Let him get healthy and play for a couple weeks then trade him
Zion usually looks pretty good when he comes back from injury so they should be able to get 1-2 first rounders (probably both protected if not just one of them) and hopefully a solid rotation guy or two
This trade Dumars made on draft night is still a bad one in my mind because they could’ve gotten that pick for something else instead of giving up next year’s lottery pick (say… Trading Zion maybe? And they get more picks/players in return?)
This way you actually shoot for the rebuild and do it fairly quickly… Imagine if they were able to add a top 5 pick in next year’s draft to this roster? Add on having extra cap space to go with that for free agency
Dumars must’ve really thought this team was going to compete in the west after that trade but man lol… Hindsight is always 20⁄20 or whatever the saying is
Child support
Tbh it doesn’t matter. Zion is just a distraction and waste of money. Whatever you can get would more than likely be worth it.
I feel so vindicated seeing Queen turn this shit around and quiet the chatter. It’s like people wanted to see him fail just because the Pels made a very questionable trade to get him
He was 7th on my board come draft night. I wouldn’t have been mad if the Jazz traded down to snag him. Like if you watched him in college you saw that he had ridiculously rare ball skills relative to his size.
I don’t follow college at all, but I have been rooting for him so hard because my friend (who is a Pelicans fan) sat next to him on a plane once
I’ve literally never seen anyone hate on Queen, I don’t know why people keep saying this. Everyone was clowning on the Pels ownership and their future, not Queen himself
I mean if you’re on this sub often enough you’ll see hate for literally every young player, and there were definitely a few high-profile posts that were rooting for Queen to fail.
Comments about his weight, posts labeling him a bust after just a few games, etc. It’s obviously a vocal minority but they’re still out there. I’m sure they’re keeping quiet about it now though.
Even if Queen pans out to a superstar the trade is still ass. I bet the hawks accept even if it was top 5 protected. Same with the Luka trade. Even if AD got them a championship, the value of the trade was ass. It was clear the lakers did the trade as a rebuilding move rather than to make a contender. Lakers would’ve definitely added more picks and/or Austin reaves (at the time).
Sure.
Not the point of my comment whatsoever lol
if queen ends up being better than whoever the hawks end up with no one will care about the bad value in the trade
You bet the Hawks accept if it is top 5 protected? on what basis?
I do think they take it if its top 3 protected top 5 is stretching it
Def not if top 5 protected. Pelicans were probably gonna be a shit team, so top 3 protected is a coin flip if it would convey.
It’s still a swap
As a Maryland fan, watching the second half of the season through the tournament, you could see everything starting to click for Queen. Dude is really good.
he’s the black jokic
N***ola Jokic
They deadass need to. A dynamic, playmaking big will be easier for them to build around if they can hit on some solid defensive wings to compensate for his shortcomings there.
The biggest draw is that he won’t need to rely on freakish athleticism to be impactful.
Trade Zion for Ware, Miami rehabs and holds him accountable, Pels get a stretch paint protector next to Queen
the sight of seeing anyone on Pelicans do well doubles as a reminder of how disappointing Zion has been
Can’t be worse.
We’re all just going to gloss over Murphy floating 14ft in the air here? What the fuck was that entire play? Are they the monstars?
Genuine boiiiinnnngg ass jump
I had to replay this like 8 times and save this, one of the best causal aesthetic dunks in a minute
the rim is practically at his eye level.
People forget that this guy had a legit shot at winning the Dunk Contest in 2023. He just ran into Matt McClung.
He’s also a great shooter and defender
Castle should’ve won last year, I’ll die on that hill
The Monstars would be the ones to test out their powers at an empty game lol
Test him. I’d bet my house he pisses hot for gravity-suppressing drugs. Einstumofol. Or Newtonipreme.
Right? His entire arms were over the rim. Great lob from the big guy, but a blind dude could have hit that target.
he clearly jumped on a trampoline…
People forget he was dunk runner up behind McClung. And he was robbed.
Fuck them picks
No brother that pick is potentially Cam Boozer, Peterson or AJ
The pick they don’t own anyways so it was already fucked
Queen is going to be better than all of them.
No dude they’re all like wemby and LeBron combined why didn’t the Pels get the pick at least top 8 protected
Dumars was right
r/brandnewsentence
He did build a championship team once
From 03 to 07, every season the Pistons had was better than anything the Pelicans have done.
r/TwoPhoneJoe
Joe D teabagging his critics right now
Zion going for a bag of chips
He better not eat them first
Some desperate team might trade for him but I don’t know why anyone would trade any value for him
Sacramento has entered the chat.
I love this kid man wow
ROTY. MIP. 6MOTY. MVP.
FMVP. DPOY. COY. EOY.
OYOYOY
EIEIOY
Pretty sure Zion is getting Eater of the Year
He genuinely might already be the 2nd best passing center in the league as a rookie
I think Sengun’s got him beat but he’s up there
Maybe he already had Segun at one
why? did the joker die?
he thought joker was just a 7 foot point guard
Baby Jokic I stand by it.
Black Baby Jokic. Baby Jokic is Sengun.
Blokic.
Blackokic
Black Honey ^^^is ^^^this ^^^offensive
Everytime I see this comp I remember this post specifically from the draft sub https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA_Draft/s/I7W7S3BtRE
He’s alright but he’s no “Kosher Joker” though.
thats so fucking sick, cant wait to see this man get a good team around him
Baby faced Jokic
This kid is going to make us forget this was the Cooper Flagg draft.
This might end up going down as one of the best draft classes, right there with 03 or 96
Nah I wouldn’t go that far.
Give them 4 years and we can revisit this.
dude said ‘might end up’… what were you reading?
You skipped 2018
High school teammates too
THE PELICANS DYNASTY IS ON THE WAY - WE WERE NOT WRONG, JUST EARLY
I’m really glad for Joel and AD that they get to see Queen & Fears coming up like this at least.
I love the Pels, but those dudes are 2 of the best announcers in the game and deserve better than what’s been being served
I don’t know why I thought you meant Embiid and Anthony Davis
LOL reading it back now I completely get it - amazing.
No, to Pels fans Joel = Joel Meyers
And the real AD is and always will be Antonio Daniels
AD was drafted by new Orleans though
Man, they sounded so depressed one game. I was legit worried for their mental health.
I’m sure that’s what all of us were thinking lol
I honestly was confused. Two injury-riddled big men who will at least get to see the next generation they helped to inspire? My mind was really reaching for an explanation for a second.
I sat here wayyy to long trying to figure out what connected the four lol
Joe Dumars vindication campaign has officially begun
For the campaign to be successful he needs both Fears and Queen to be better than whatever pick they are getting this year.
I love this kid.
But at least we have Noa Essengue
might be nice when he actually gets nba minutes
It’s crazy how the only thing he’s known for right now is that disgusting poster lmao
#Apologize2Joe
And Troy 😆
If you took him top 3 in the draft youd be ecstatic with his producton currently. Worth the trade
Pels fans gotta get to these games and see these rookies while tickets are still cheap
Love the pelicans announcers, such a cool team. I’ll never forget catching a t shirt at a pelicans game in 2023 one handed, shot from the cannon. Never thought I’d ever get a shirt from a cannon, It was a great come true. Couldn’t even tell you anything about the game. I think they played the wolves
Does this Pels team have sauce???
No but we do have Derrick queen and that’s something
Derik*
So that trade might not have been so crazy…
Gumbo Jokic
Gumbokic
DAYUM
That’s one big ass logo though.
As a terps fan from bmore I’d just like to say, I was telling my wife this kid will be special after every bucket last year 😂 what a pass
I was so annoyed when Wizards passed on him when he fell right into our lap
I love Tre but me too man. We really could have picked the hometown kid and I can’t help but to imagine a front court with Sarr and Queen 💪🏽
I’m currently wearing my “I’m from Baltimore” DQ shirt.
good god almighty
Where does he lie on the Jokic/Sengun/Sabonis evolution chart
Mega Charizard X
He may have stolen Sabonis’s spot.
That hang time by Trey
this guy is talented. pelicans need to build around him and fears and they have a much better future than with zion.
This is joker/bron/magic type shit, incredible!
Ok wtf was that bomb
damn trey murphy got UP for that
This was a really sick lob
logo is damn near at the 3pt line
yeah lol love this lob but that damn logo is too near at the three
Protect this man Pelicans fans, he is the brightest thing I’ve seen coming out of your team in like forever.
Also look at the athleticism of Trey Murphy III my goodness.
His lanky ass body makes it look even crazier
Bro how do I fix this bug of the same video on every post lol I got ant playing ping pong on every video
Same thing happening to me. Different video though.
Kid is special
Joker 2.0
NEW ORLEANS PLEASE CHANGE YOUR LOGO/UNIFORMS TO THIS COLORWAY
Pels young guys are sick
All 10 people in the stands were very impressed
Man listen he was nice at Maryland but I did not see all this ability while he was there! This crazy!
Really hope he gets to all-NBA level, though it still won’t end the Dumars hate.
Bulls could’ve drafted him and moved on from Vuc… yeeesh.
The Dark Joker
Queen of spades
Off the bounce, really impressive
His game is so fun. Starting to feel like some teams messed up by not taking him before 13.
I know I’m an old man and the rules are all different now, but when did they stop calling techs when doing a pullup on the rim after a dunk?
Jokic-ian
Queen has found a home.
Pelicans better be thankful that traded pick might just work out.
They’ll take the L but if Queen keeps balling out it’ll even itself out as time goes on.
Do they not gaf about Basketball in NOLA?
They got booger McFarland doing color commentary?
Derik “Jokic in the East” Queen
Why are they green?
himothyyyyy
Best Terp in the league since Stevie Franchise Sorry Steve Blake, you are my College Goat tho..
He’s been absolutely balling. Joe Dumars perhaps I judged you too harshly…
LL!!! LOGO LOB !!!!
Ok that’s some genuine Jokic shit
04 b hen is nasty
They’re going to forget about Zion quickly.
Should be renamed Trey Murphy defying gravity, dude shot himself out of a cannon
YASSSSS QUEEN!
You can thank Jokic for this one
Crazy how he can look this good and that trade still looks horrendous
Can this fad die now?
That was Jokish
Hmmm why isn’t derik the RoTY
Nobody’s going to say anything about those ugly-af Pelicans jerseys?
How many times in a row can I watch this before it gets weird?