Anthony Davis went into this season determined to "get out of my comfort zone."
To some extent, he has.
More vocal leadership. More tenacity in playing with pain.
And still, that growth has hardly mattered.
The New Orleans Pelicans are not good—and are not going to be good—this season. They beat a Boston Celtics team missing Al Horford and Jae Crowder 106-105 on Monday in exactly the sort of it's-time-we-give-max-effort, if-we-catch-the-other-team-slippin' victory that is the 2-9 Pelicans' best-case scenario.
Though only 11 games into Davis' fifth season, it is not too soon to wonder about Davis and the damage that is being done to him in his prime years.
The people you spend time with color the person you become.
Especially in your formative professional years.
Or if your parents wanted far more to make sure they raised a good person than a good but self-centered player (and your parents still live down the street now that you're 23).
And if your franchise has won only one playoff series in its New Orleans history and is best known for the ...
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Anthony Davis May Be Back on Track, but Pelicans Are Derailing His Future
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