The pelicans have the jordan poole contract and the picks to sweeten the deal. With jordan poole's money falling off the books pretty quickly, they'll be able to come back and start a semi-tank with dejounte murray being the PG to help not be a bottom 5 team in the league while helping their rookies gain experience. Also I doubt the pelicans would hold onto hope for zion any longer (even though holding on longer seems like a very pelicany thing to do). so the picks should end up being pretty good in the future unless they are too ass