Weekend dime-dropping ...
Why is Houston allowed to sit John Wall for seemingly as long as the Rockets want when the Pelicans were forced to play Anthony Davis in similar circumstances? Excellent question
The New Orleans Pelicans came to the dreaded conclusion well before the end of the 2018-19 season.
They knew they were going to have to trade Anthony Davis during the ensuing off-season at the latest to guard against ultimately losing their best player in free agency without compensation. So the Pelicans hatched a plan to hold Davis out of games to prot…