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Why Your Team Sucks 2016: New Orleans Saints<em></em>
Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here....


Wild Brawl Breaks Out At Minor League Baseball Game
The Memphis Redbirds hosted the New Orleans Zephyrs this evening for some AAA action, and they treated their guests to a very spicy basebrawl. Apparently, Jose Urena tried to bean Jeremy Hazelbaker in the fifth inning, he charged the mound, and it was on....

The Pelicans' Bryce Dejean-Jones Has Been Shot To Death In Texas (UPDATE)
Bryce Dejean-Jones, a 23-year-old shooting guard for the New Orleans Pelicans, is dead in Dallas County, Texas, according to a report in the Ames Tribune. The cause is being reported as a gunshot to the abdomen....

Today, Media Members Decided Whether The Pelicans Will Pay Anthony Davis $24 Million
Today is the deadline for the couple hundred NBA reporters and broadcasters to submit their awards ballots. Some of their decisions—Steph Curry for MVP, Karl-Anthony Towns for Rookie of the Year—are quite easy, and others—Coach of the Year, All-Defensive Team—are not. But none is more interesting th...

Police: Gun Found Inside Will Smith's Car
New Orleans police announced last night that they found a loaded (though unfired) handgun in the vehicle belonging to former Saints DE Will Smith, who was shot to death following a car crash....

Saints Head Coach Sean Payton On Guns: "That's Some Silly Stuff We're Hanging Onto"
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton, who coached defensive end Will Smith for six years, has spoken publicly for the first time since Smith was shot to death in New Orleans on Saturday night. In a phone interview with USA Today, Payton said, “I hate guns,” and American gun culture in general....

Police Yet To Establish Motive For Will Smith Shooting; Suspect's Attorney Claims His Client "Not The Aggressor"
At a press conference yesterday, New Orleans police superintendent Michael Harrison released a few more details about his department’s investigation into the killing of former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith, who was shot to death over the weekend, allegedly by former high school footbal...
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Will Smith's Alleged Murderer Is A Former High School Football Star [UPDATES]
Update (12:54 p.m.): The New Orleans Advocate reports Will Smith ate dinner with former New Orleans police captain Billy Ceravolo shortly before being murdered. Ceravolo was a defendant in a high-profile lawsuit filed by Cardell Hayes over the shooting death of Hayes’s father in 2005. The Advocate r...
![Former Saints Defensive End Will Smith Shot To Death In New Orleans [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/rwvwsasvti5lxwzupg4w.jpg)
Former Saints Defensive End Will Smith Shot To Death In New Orleans [UPDATE]
Will Smith, who played defensive end in New Orleans for ten years, is dead after a shooting in that city’s Lower Garden district according to the Times-Picayune....

Sixers Win Game, Make History
The Philadelphia 76ers—a misshapen experiment in gaming the NBA Draft lottery, who, weirdly enough, play actual basketball games—won their tenth game of the season tonight. Pity the poor Pelicans, who came into the year as a sexy pick to win 50 games, but had to stand by as Carl Landry (who had 22 p...


Anthony Davis Says He's Been Playing Hurt For Three Years
The New Orleans Pelicans announced yesterday that Anthony Davis will miss the remainder of the season, and will have surgeries to repair an injured knee and a torn labrum in his shoulder. During a session with reporters today, Davis revealed that he’s been playing with the torn labrum for three year...

Damian Lillard Has The Best Response To Kendrick Perkins Trying To Decapitate Him
While the crazy-as-hell first round of the NCAA Tournament was finishing up, there were a bunch of NBA games on last night. I know! I’m surprised too! In one of them, the Blazers played the sad sack Pelicans, and in the fourth quarter, Kendrick Perkins tried to pop Damian Lillard’s head off....

Kevin Garnett Tells Eric Gordon Exactly What He Thinks Of Him
Kevin Garnett may not have been fit enough to play in Saturday’s game against the Pelicans, but he still came to arena ready to talk some shit. That’s because KG is always ready to talk some shit....

The Saints Are Reportedly Preparing To Be The Subject Of This Season's <i>Hard Knocks</i>
Last season’s Hard Knocks brought us Vince Wilfork showin’ off that bod underneath some overalls, Brian Cushing chucking, and a solid Macho Man impression. The latest team to bring us training camp fights, barfs, and hopefully those two at the same time could be the New Orleans Saints. According to ...

Holy Smokes, Anthony Davis Just Had The Game Of The Season
Thank God the Pistons kept today’s game against the Pelicans close enough to force Anthony Davis to stay in until the end, because he put forth the best game anyone’s had all NBA season. Young Brow dropped 59 points on 24-for-34 shooting and collected 20 rebounds in 43 minutes of work. That’s the fi...

Kevin Durant Breaks Down While Talking About The Death Of Monty Williams's Wife
The Oklahoma City Thunder played their first game since the Wednesday death of Ingrid Williams, wife of Thunder assistant and former Pelicans head coach Monty Williams, following a car crash. As fate would have it, the Pelicans were in town. All the better for Williams’s former players to drop by....

Monty Williams's Wife Dies In Car Accident
Ingrid Williams, the wife of Thunder assistant and former Pelicans head coach Monty Williams, died last night of injuries suffered in a car crash the day before. She was 44. Monty and Ingrid Williams have five kids, between the ages of 5 and 17....