The New Orleans Pelicans finalized their regular-season roster Monday, and it features six primary players that weren’t with the team last season.

The projected starting lineup features three players — Zion Williamson, Trey Murphy and Herbert Jones — who missed a combined 143 games last season.

So the team that opens the season Wednesday at Memphis will look very different than the one that literally and figuratively limped to the end of last season with a 21-61 record.

Three players on this year’s team — incumbent point guard Dejounte Murray , trade acquisition Kevon Looney and Derik Queen, the second of the team’s two lottery draft picks — are sidelined with injuries as the season gets underway.

The combination of mainstays, familiar faces returning to health and veteran and rook

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