Also, New Orleans Pelicans president Dennis Lauscha lauded the efforts that have been made to improve the Smoothie King Center, including touting the new video boards that will be in place for the beginning of the season.
"I'm so proud of what we've done in the arena," Lauscha told the fans in attendance. "You look at the new video boards that are going in; this will be the first year the video boards are going in. Back in the old days, the Smoothie King Center was just the New Orleans Arena. There was no branding in it at all. You walked in and it could be Oklahoma or Wyoming.