New Orleans Pelicans

The New Orleans Pelicans are a National Basketball Association team in the Southwest Division (Western Conference), founded in 2002. No NBA championship yet.

The basics

Founded	2002
Conference	Western
Division	Southwest Division
NBA championships	0 (all-time)

Record since 2002

Regular-season and play-off results over 2002–2026 (the span the open data covers) — not an all-time record. The championships above are all-time; these win–loss figures are since 2002.

Regular season	922–1092 (.458)
Play-offs	26–42
Seasons counted	25 (2002–2026)

Season by season

Every season the open data covers, 2002–2026, counted game by game from hoopR. This is not an all-time record — the championships above are, these rows are not. Pick a figure to chart it; the year links to that season’s page.

W by season. Every figure is in the table below.

Season	W	L	Pct	Play-off W	Play-off L
2002	44	38	.537	4	5
2003	47	35	.573	2	4
2004	41	41	.500	3	4
2005	18	64	.220	0	0
2006	38	44	.463	0	0
2007	39	43	.476	0	0
2008	56	26	.683	7	5
2009	49	33	.598	1	4
2010	37	45	.451	0	0
2011	46	36	.561	2	4
2012	21	45	.318	0	0
2013	27	55	.329	0	0
2014	34	48	.415	0	0
2015	45	37	.549	0	4
2016	30	52	.366	0	0
2017	34	48	.415	0	0
2018	48	34	.585	5	4
2019	33	49	.402	0	0
2020	30	42	.417	0	0
2021	31	41	.431	0	0
2022	36	46	.439	2	4
2023	42	40	.512	0	0
2024	49	33	.598	0	4
2025	21	61	.256	0	0
2026	26	56	.317	0	0
Since 2002	922	1092	.458	26	42

Where this came from

Founding, conference, division and all-time championships from Wikidata (public domain). Win–loss records are counted from hoopR open data (CC BY 4.0), 2002–2026 only. Both are free and open.

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