The New Orleans Pelicans are real. Really real. This team is legitimately an NBA title contender.
The Pelicans proved it with their outright domination of the Phoenix Suns on Friday night, making them the unquestioned No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.
The team put the rest of the NBA on notice. It is not to be toyed with. Zion Williamson made sure the Phoenix Suns knew that, too.
He punctuated the Pelicans’ win with a thunderous dunk worthy of ever 50 score the NBA’s dunk contest has ever seen. It rattled the entire arena, mostly in a good way for the home crowd. We can’t say the same for Chris Paul and the Suns, though.
It didn’t go over too well with the team. The dunk nearly started a scuffle between the two squads.
Suns vs. Pelicans after Zion’s late game dunk. 👀
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) December 10, 2022
Queue up the unwritten rule talk. The Suns were mad. Super mad.
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