{"id":22905,"date":"2019-06-30T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=22905"},"modified":"2019-06-30T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T23:16:09","slug":"jj-redick-signs-with-new-orleans-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2019\/06\/30\/jj-redick-signs-with-new-orleans-pelicans\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick Signs with New Orleans Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/redicjj01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J.J. Redick<\/a><\/strong> will sign with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/new-orleans-pelicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a>. According to Adrian Wojnarowski, Redick has agreed to a two-year deal with the Pelicans worth $26.5 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JJ Redick has agreed to a 2-year, $26.5M deal with the Pelicans, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@wojespn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pQjq5XNg9v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pQjq5XNg9v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1145453000602734592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>New Orleans Pelicans Sign JJ Redick<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>After getting a <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/15\/anthony-davis-has-been-traded-to-the-los-angeles-lakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">huge haul<\/a> back in the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davisan02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Davis<\/a><\/strong> trade, the Pelicans weren&#8217;t content to stop there. Not long after free agency started, news quickly came out that JJ Redick was signing with the Pelicans. Overall, this is a great deal for both the Pelicans and Redick.<\/p>\n<p>Redick&#8217;s most valuable skill is his sharpshooting. A career 41.3 percent shooter from deep, Redick is the kind of player that commands respect from opposing defenses. Redick is a catch-and-shoot specialist that doesn&#8217;t require the ball in his hands to do damage. Last year with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>, 35.2 percent of his threes were catch-and-shoot, which he knocked down at a 42.4 percent accuracy. To make matters worse, Redick isn&#8217;t a stationary shooter either. He runs through a maze of off-ball screens waiting for the defender to fall behind a step so he can stop on a dime and fire. These off-ball skills will make him a great complement to ball-dominant players like\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/i\/ingrabr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Ingram<\/a><\/strong> and presumably\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/zion-williamson-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zion Williamson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Redick&#8217;s time with the 76ers over the last two years gives him experience being the veteran for a young team. At 35 years old, Redick wouldn&#8217;t have gotten a lot of money unless he opted for such a role again. He does have defensive limitations that will only get worse with age, but New Orleans won&#8217;t really be competing for a title in the next two years. All in all, David Griffin has continued to make shrewd, smart moves in his first few months as General Manager of the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"KaIB9FcdTVNuLeR_A3VObg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1046330486\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'KaIB9FcdTVNuLeR_A3VObg',sig:'nGxA4pIYFmWlCMOSmrP-0-WjhJe6Xy1911Av6niUzR8=',w:'594px',h:'425px',items:'1046330486',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.J. Redick will sign with the New Orleans Pelicans. According to Adrian Wojnarowski, Redick has agreed to a two-year deal with the Pelicans worth $26.5 million. JJ Redick has agreed to a 2-year, $26.5M deal with the Pelicans, per @wojespn pic.twitter.com\/pQjq5XNg9v &mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 30, 2019 New Orleans Pelicans Sign JJ Redick After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3086,"featured_media":22935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1608,62,33],"tags":[1970,65,308,996,378,96,297,202,220,1684],"class_list":["post-22905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-basketball","category-nba","category-pelicans","tag-2019-nba-free-agency","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-ingram","tag-david-griffin","tag-j-j-redick","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-news","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-zion-williamson"],"modified_by":"Tyler Marling","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}