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Atlantic W L PCT GB L10 
Boston64 18 .780 0.0 7-3 
New York50 32 .610 14.0 6-4 
Philadelphia47 35 .573 17.0 8-2 
Brooklyn32 50 .390 32.0 5-5 
Toronto25 57 .305 39.0 2-8 Southeast W L PCT GB L10 
Orlando47 35 .573 0.0 5-5 
Miami46 36 .561 1.0 7-3 
Atlanta36 46 .439 11.0 3-7 
Charlotte21 61 .256 26.0 3-7 
Washington15 67 .183 32.0 1-9 Sep 27, 2013 · Unbeknownst to many pundits who weighed in on the New Orleans NBA franchise’s decision to select the nickname “Pelicans,” the moniker is far from a new one. In fact, “New Orleans...
- Big Easy. The Big Easy is the most common nickname associated with New Orleans. There's no concrete evidence of how the name was first generated, but plenty of theories exist.
- Big Greasy. Big Greasy is an adaptation of the New Orleans moniker, Big Easy. It first appeared in 1990 when it was used in a headline in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- Birthplace of Jazz. New Orleans is known as the Birthplace of Jazz because the genre was created there. In the late 19th to early 20th century, when musicians from different ethnic backgrounds merged their African and European styles, jazz was born.
- Big Sleazy. The Big Sleazy first appeared as a revamp of Big Easy in a series of crime novels written by James Lee Burke. While its origin was fictional, Big Sleazy is a nickname that's been adopted to describe the corrupt culture of the city.
The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans. The Pelicans compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference. The team plays its home games at the Smoothie King Center.
- ’Cans
- Pecans/P’Cans/P-Cans/Pee-Cans
- Nope/Nope
- The P’s
- The Birds
- The Flock
- The Long Beaks/Beaks/Bills/Long Bills
- The Pels
I’m sorry, but no. I get the appeal, believe me. The word “cans” is right in the word “pelicans,” and brings a double entendre that would make Adam Sandler laugh and gain a new relevance every Mardi Gras. But we can’t lean upon a term some conservative producers might think of as inappropriate, and if we leave that more fun interpretation aside, we...
Candy-coated pecans are a popular sort of praline, a treat with a long tradition in and around New Orleans. But a pecan is a nut. We cannot come to know a collection of the world’s most talented athletes by referring to them, collectively, as a bunch of tiny nuts. The NBA isn’t short on ridiculous official nicknames — Magic, Thunder, Jazz, Spurs, H...
This works better in writing than it does verbally. Scoreboard operators with limited space often used “NOH” (Basketball-Reference does as well) to abbreviate the Hornets, and I suspect we’ll see “NOP” on those same scoreboards and along television crawls. But I can’t picture a SportsCenteranchor saying, “Anthony Davis and the rest of NOPE took on ...
Innuendo aside, this isn’t terrible. Fans in Boston know the Bruins and Celtics as the “B’s” and “C’s,” respectively, Seattle has the “M’s,” and Oakland the “A’s.” Even “Dubs” is a version of this trope. But with a word and image as rich as “pelicans,” we can do better.
The NBA has only one other bird mascot, and let’s just say the Hawks aren’t popular enough to stop New Orleans from immediately becoming known as “the Birds” if the franchise wishes to co-opt the name. But teams in other sports, especially the Philadelphia Eagles and St. Louis Cardinals, already own the “birds” lingo, and it’s not all that evocativ...
Now we’re getting somewhere. Flocks are vaguely threatening, and they move in unison within set patterns, not unlike an NBA team fanning out in fast-break formation (leader in the center, teammates filling the wings). A number of readers pointed out that a group of pelicans is actually known as a “squadron” (among other names, including “pod” and “...
(I can’t find tweets suggesting Long Bills and Long Beaks, but several folks did.) Hmm … The beak is the pelican’s most distinctive feature, and it’s pretty fucking cool. It can scoop and hold an entire fish in that thing, and the brown pelican uses its beak almost as a weapon when it flies in the air, spots a fish, and shifts into a downward dive-...
This is by far the most likely winner of this competition, over Pellies and everything else. For one, the organization is pushing it, though I couldn’t give a whit about what the franchise wants us to call the team. But “Pels” has also been the most popular suggestion among fans and Twitter people, by a considerable margin. And it has an obvious dr...
Apr 24, 2022 · It’s been almost a decade since the Pelicans changed their name, which is a sign of just how quickly time flies. Some might not even remember what the NBA franchise in New Orleans used to be...
- Alicia de Artola
Jan 24, 2013 · The New Orleans franchise formally announced its new Pelicans nickname and revealed the team colors and logos Thursday. The nickname change will take place before the start of next season.
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For its first eleven seasons, the team used the Hornets nickname. It competed as part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference for its first two seasons, and since 2004 has been a member of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference.
