The New Orleans Pelicans have two choices ahead of the trade deadline. They can either sit on their hands and hope that their kinks work themselves out or they can try to untangle their mess of a roster.

The Jimmy-Butler-Heat saga is layers deep. The six-time All-Star forward — who has made it clear he wants a trade out of Miami — realized that he wasn’t in the Heat’s future plans when team president Pat Riley called a meeting with center Bam Adebayo to crown him leader of the franchise before the 2023-24 season,