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New Orleans Pelicans

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Franchise scrapbook

All-time ledger and fan lore through 2025-26. Also known as: New Orleans Hornets → New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.

What counts

Records, titles and leaders include every league this franchise played in (NBA, ABA or BAA). Retired numbers include banners for coaches and owners. Streaks and lore are curated.

Championships

Still hunting the first banner

Finals appearances

0 conference titles

Playoff seasons

Seasons that reached the postseason

Regular season

878-1,054

45.4% all-time

Peaks & valleys

Best season

56-26

2007-08

Worst season

18-64

2004-05

Longest win streak

CP3 Hornets years · curated

Longest losing streak

Post-Katrina / rebuild years · curated

Division titles

Retired numbers

History as of

2025-26

Full franchise records

Franchise leaders

Career totals in this continuous franchise.

Points

Anthony Davis

11,059

Rebounds

Fan lore

The weird, wonderful, and argument-starting stuff.

The team moved from Charlotte in 2002, but the NBA returned the 1988-2002 Hornets records to Charlotte in 2014.
Chris Paul’s Hornets teams were Western Conference pests.
AD’s Brow era: block party meets unicorn scoring.

Continuous franchises keep relocated history. Conference titles count from 1970-71, when the NBA split into conferences. Season boards and roster live on the other team tabs.

Franchise timeline

Explicit lineage (renames / relocations). Historical names are not replaced by the current brand.

Charlotte Hornets
Charlotte · CHH · 1988-89 → 2001-02
Open 1988-89
New Orleans Hornets
New Orleans · NOH · 2002-03 → 2012-13
Open 2002-03
New Orleans Pelicans
New Orleans · NOP · 2013-14 → present
Open 2013-14

expansion · 1988-89: Charlotte Hornets era begins
relocation · 2002-03: Charlotte Hornets → New Orleans Hornets
rebrand · 2013-14: New Orleans Hornets → New Orleans Pelicans

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Team Arc

How this team got here, from season board history (not asset genealogy).

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Team-season board rows available 2021-22 → 2025-26 for this team. Cross-season metrics limited to stable counting/efficiency fields (point differential, TS%, eFG%, PPG, opp PPG). Arc coverage starts 2001-02 (documented team-board reliability floor). Earlier seasons are not treated as zeros. Absent from board in 2026-27.

Continuity follows this team's id across seasons. It is not a merged multi-franchise genealogy.

Biggest team changes

Same noise floors and trend method as analyzeTeamProfile.

2024-25 → 2025-26
- Point differential+4.9
- Opponent PPG+0.8
- Turnovers / game-0.5
- 3-point volume-3.0 pts
2023-24 → 2024-25
- Point differential-13.8
- Opponent PPG+8.5
- Turnovers / game+1.5
- Blocks / game+0.6
2022-23 → 2023-24
- Point differential+2.6
- Opponent PPG-1.9
- Turnovers / game-1.6
- Blocks / game+0.5
2021-22 → 2022-23
- Point differential+2.7
- Opponent PPG+2.4
- Turnovers / game+0.7
- 3P%+3.2 pts

Season	Diff	TS%	eFG%	Off	Def	Explore
2025-26	-4.5	56.8%	52.7%	115.5	120.0	Season·Compare·Evidence·Games·Ask
2024-25	-9.4	55.2%	51.9%	109.8	119.2	Season·Compare·Evidence·Games·

Off = team PPG · Def = opponent PPG. Missing cells are unavailable, not zero. Roster for a year lives under Who drives it after you select the season.

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