“There is no way that I’m going to sell that team ever,” Benson told a group of assembled writers, the majority of them from New Orleans. “I value the Pelicans as much as I do the Saints. I don’t look at myself as an owner of a team or the teams. I feel like it’s an asset I’m protecting for the city.”
At present, the Pelicans (31-44) are seven games away from completing the regular season, one year after advancing to the playoffs, sweeping Portland in the first round and taking a game off Golden State, the eventual NBA champions, in the second round. The franchise also is in search of a new general manager. Dell Demps, who served as general manager from 2010 until this season, was fired in February. The goal, said Pelicans President Dennis Lauscha, is to lift the Pelicans to the same level of consistency as the Saints. Lauscha also serves as Saints president.
“The first thing we have to do is, we have to take a look in the mirror and see where we are as an organization on the basketball side,” he said. “We’ve begun that process. And we’re going through a process really now of reflecting on where we are and where we need to be. And where we need to be is, a champion. There’s no question about it.
“Where we need to be is having on-court performance that is second to none. I truly believe in my heart that this franchise and this team will be supported by the fans in New Orleans when we put a winning team on the court. Having said that, it’s our responsibility to do that. “On the football side, there’s a paranoia, if you will, year in and year out, to be No. 1. The whole organization feels it. I don’t care what it is. We were a little bit new to basketball, but we have to make sure we have that paranoia on basketball as well. I think we’re going through the process of how we can shift some paranoia over to basketball as well.
“Back in 2006 (after Hurricane Katrina), we were an organization on the football side where it was tough to recruit people to come here. I’ll tell you today, just about everybody in the NFL says they want to come to New Orleans to play for us. Everybody wants to live in New Orleans. We have to build that same organization on the basketball side, and we’re going through the process of trying to figure out how we’re going to do that.”
Lauscha said that hiring the right general manager is paramount.
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