Elfrid Payton Has Neat New Hair And Neat New Teammates
Some of the uncertainty coming into this season, for the New Orleans Pelicans, concerned the departure of Rajon Rondo, who played an important role in the team’s strong finish last season and then left in free agency, and his replacement, Elfrid Payton. If, like mine, your brain has been turned to slush by worms and you therefore are the sort of lost soul who consumes a lot of NBA season-preview blogs, this was a common refrain: The Pelicans will need Elfrid Payton to replace what they lost in Rajon Rondo. That’s accurate in a literal sense—they play the same position, so Payton is Rondo’s...
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