No Kevin Durant or Jusuf Nurkic for the Suns, while the Pels are welcoming back Brandon Ingram. Also good chance that defensive stud Herbert Jones will return from injury as well and he can be stuck on Devin Booker with no Durant.

I get the Suns are all kind of beat up and will be without Kevin Durant and their center for this game. But the Pelicans are the biggest MASH unit in the NBA and they are 1-9 in their last 10 and have 4 wins all season and no real home court advantage. Suns still have legit outside shooters and while they don't cover big margins, they do win games (12-8) and have won 3 straight against the Western Conference. It's more than a coin flip to me that they are the better team over 48 minutes. New Orleans is a miserable operation and the season has already slipped away. Suns perimeter shooting will prevail.