Welcome back to the NBA Hater Report: A breakdown of some of the players, teams and trends around the league that are drawing the ire of yours truly. If you're not a fellow pessimist, proceed with caution.

Winless Pelicans need to trade Zion

As of Monday morning, New Orleans Pelicans are one of two winless NBA teams at 0-6. The other is the Brooklyn Nets , but the Nets want to be bad. The Pelicans, which is to say Joe Dumars, conducted their offseason operation in the bizarrely bold fashion of a team that expected to be good.

First they traded Indiana's 2026 first-round pick, which is probably going to be a pretty high selection as the Pacers are currently 1-5, for the No. 23 overall pick in this year's draft, which they subsequently sent to the Hawks along with their own

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