The article is itself behind a paywall, but there's been a lot of chatter on Twitter about
this article from The Athletic that says part of "Zion's team" are unhappy with the situation in NOLA.
Considering everything I've seen contains the constant disclaimer of Zion's
team rather than saying Zion
himself is unhappy, I'm taking this with a huge grain of salt. But the timing with Stan Van Gundy's firing after one year certainly seems more than coincidental.
From my perspective, NOLA has the pieces to take a big step forward, and soon... BI and Zion appear to work well together, and there's loads of solid young talent and draft assets (along with their lottery pick this year, the Pelicans have three of the top 15 picks in the second round, which could easily be used to move up to get a specific target late in the first round) to use to build around that duo. Perhaps it's an issue with SVG's use of Zion, combined with the one weird personnel move last year of signing Stephen Adams (a paint bound big that contrasts with Zion's skills) that is the main problem here. I hope Zion sticks with it, as it would be fun to see him succeed in a city that we know falls in love with sports personalities and supports winners like crazy (see Drew Brees and the Saints).
Any veiled pieces of info from those who have read the article itself would be of interest