RealGM

Derik Queen will be out at least 12 weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a torn scapholunate ligament in his left wrist.

The New Orleans Pelicans acquired the draft rights to Queen in a trade with the Atlanta Hawks on draft night in which they sent the No. 23 pick and the more favorable unprotected 2026 first round pick via their own or the Milwaukee Bucks.

Queen appeared in three Summer League games for the Pelicans, averaging 14.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 27.1 minutes.

Via RealGM Staff Report

This is becoming more and more of a nightmare for the utterly incompetent NOLA front office

who

CaHgO wrote:This is becoming more and more of a nightmare for the utterly incompetent NOLA front office

Absolutely. Dumars is delusional. That was the worst hire for this organization. I feel for Queen, he will obviously recover, best of luck to him. What will not recover is the lottery pick next June, which very well could be A.J. Dybantsa. I'm sure the moral of the players is not very high when management stunts their growth via stupidity.

They gave up an unprotected pick swap next year and the #23 pick to trade up for this guy, yikes

the dumbest thing isn't trading the pick lol the dumbest thing is banking on a healthy zion cause if hes injured NOP is a for sure bottom 5 next season, and can literally give away a cooper flagg like prospect

HAWKS FRONT OFFICE HIGH FIVING!

The worst trade of the offseason just gets worse, somehow.