Growing pelicans seem to skip jazz in the West

It’s been a tough first half of the season for the New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz, but they meet on Friday night in a battle between two teams fighting to get out of the Western Conference basement. While the Jazz sit 1.5 games ahead of the Pelicans, New Orleans can leapfrog Utah in this two-game series at home. The Pelicans are on the rise After a historically bad start to the season, the Pels have turned things around in January, going 5-4 this month. A big part of that improvement has been the resurgence of Trey Murphy and…

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