Can we trade the NBA farm team and try a NHL team instead?

Dude, why continue pooring time energy and money into a franchise that can’t succeed here. It won’t/can’t. Nola isn’t a destination city for chasing fame/money, and that’s what the current culture of most NBA players are after. Soon as a player looks like a decent all star, he gone. Even the role players don’t want to play for a farm team unless hefty payday. A franchise can’t win that way.
Let’s go a different route. Can’t keep trying the same things expecting different results.

How fricking old are you?? Did you ever watch the saints before 2006?
I hate this fricking board. It's literally the worst place for Pelicans info on the internet. This site is like watching Colin Cowface or whatever.

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The question is why are you and all the people like you that have allegedly hit your limit still here talking about the team? You can choose other hobbies to invest your time in

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When he was a child, anytime that he didn't immediately get what he wanted, he threw a tantrum, and then his parents caved.

Anytime that anything was hard for him, his parents told him that it was fine to quit. If he made a bad grade on the test, it was the teacher's fault.

One look at this board for the past several days would show anyone the failure of modern parenting. We have weak-minded "fans" who think that throwing a tantrum here will get them what they want, and they thinking that quitting is the proper response to setback or difficulty.

Seriously, I sat in Tiger Stadium until the clock showed 00:00 in 1993, when Spurrier ran up the score on us and we lost 58-3, which is the worst loss ever in Tiger Stadium. Absorbing all that failure and misery, and processing it, made it all the sweeter four years later when Florida came into TS ranked #1 and we beat them.

Anyone who's never learned how to properly deal with difficulty will never properly enjoy success.

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The question is why are you and all the people like you that have allegedly hit your limit still here talking about the team?

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Because the likelihood of getting an NHL team is greater if the Pelicans aren’t here. Gayle can sell the thing and pick up an NHL team, (possibly an MLB team that would get 50x the fan support) and try something we’ve never tried before. Repeating failure after failure after failure with basketball sans the couple or so years CP3 was farmed here before he was harvested for a Cali team just isn’t enjoyable for anybody, and I’m looking at all of you Pelicans snobs posting miserable posts about Zion and Griffen and all the bad decisions. It looks like even the Pelicans die hards are not enjoying the team more often than they enjoy it, and that’s going back to when the Hornets came to Nola almost a couple decades ago now.

Dude, …sunken cost. Ya gotta cut your losses and try something else after a while.

I bet my investment portfolio has higher returns than yours.

At some point you have to sell and stop giving losing stocks—historically losing stocks—more of your money.

That’s the problem with most people. They continue to buy in buy in buy in, losing money the entire way down, until they’ve lost a fortune and they were miserable about it the entire time, clinging to hope that one day, just one day, a big pump would happen and they would redeem and make all of that lost money back. Only to never happen. Most people never understand when to cut your losses and move your money elsewhere, and when it is reasonable to hold on.
This franchise is historically bad, and in today’s culture of the NBA, it can’t sustain any success here. It will never be San Antonio in the 2000’s. It will probably never be Milwaukee, last year.

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I bet my investment portfolio has higher returns than yours.

At some point you have to sell and stop giving losing stocks—historically losing stocks—more of your money.

That’s the problem with most people. They continue to buy in buy in buy in, losing money the entire way down, until they’ve lost a fortune and they were miserable about it the entire time, clinging to hope that one day, just one day, a big pump would happen and they would redeem and make all of that lost money back. Only to never happen. Most people never understand when to cut your losses and move your money elsewhere, and when it is reasonable to hold on.

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You think that choosing to be a fan of a team is like picking stocks? If so, why would you ever pick the Pelicans in the first place? You should've always chosen to be a fan of the Lakers or Celtics or Heat.

Hey, I mean while we are making analogies of each other, I decided to be a bit more realistic with mine.

Seriously though, you guys stay miserable most of the time. Look at your posts. What is enjoyable about it? The issue is way beyond fan support. I’ve been a Hornets/Pelicans fan from their arrival here. Own plenty of gear. Still have a Hornets CP3 creole blue jersey, I bought a Zion jersey. Watch plenty of games.
It’s not a good product, and it’s the culture of the players combined with poor management, mostly league culture, that is the problem. You can talk about making trades, but let’s get real. This isn’t a destination. Stars go elsewhere and if a player becomes a star in nola he goes elsewhere too. Seen it with Jamal, saw it with Baron, again with Chris Paul, then Anthony Davis, seeing it now with Zion Williamson. It has more to do with the culture of the NBA than it does with management, and even management has been bad, Gayle made a change- and it’sstill awful— so you can’t even hope for any different outcomes in nola.

Smart money would swap the team for an NHL team just to try it out. Smarter money swaps the team into an MLB team in Louisiana.

I would love an MLB team