Greg Monroe would love to play for NOLA

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“I’m looking to be with a team that’s ready to win,” said Monroe during a timeout at his youth basketball clinic Saturday morning at the Delgado Community College gymnasium. “Hopefully it will be a team where I’m the missing piece.”

Monroe, who led Helen Cox High School to the 2008 Louisiana Class 4A state championship before playing two years at Georgetown, said he’d be a good fit with the hometown New Orleans Pelicans. Both of the Pelicans’ top two centers from last season, Omer Asik and Alexis Ajinca, are unrestricted free agents.

However, Monroe said the Pelicans have not shown an interest thus far. He has career averages of 14.3 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, and last season averaged 15.9 points and 10.2 rebounds.

“I’d love to play and represent this city,” he said. “Obviously, they have a guy like Anthony Davis who is a superstar already, and he’s only going to get better.

“I think I could really play well with him. Our games complement each other. I’m a low-post scorer. Obviously he’s a great midrange player.”

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“Stan had smaller teams in Orlando (Magic) years ago,” Monroe said. “Dre is like Dwight Howard. So Stan wants to put good players around him. The team has different plans, and I respect that. I don’t want to be anywhere I’m not wanted.”

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“(He and agent David Falk) are definitely looking at all our options,” he said. “You can see the trend is everybody’s taking shorter deals right now. So, most likely, I might take that route, too, and when the new deal kicks in, get a longer-term contract.

“I’m looking at a two-year deal plus an option” to become a free agent.

About 60 children, ages 6 to 14, participated in the basketball clinic, doubling the total of the first one last year.

“At this age, we focused on basic skills — dribbling, passing, defense and stuff,” Monroe said. “The older ones, we did some typical workouts and drills trying to get them better.”

He said his charitable foundation has funded “between 15 and 20” college scholarships for students in New Orleans and Detroit.