NBA Trade Rumors: Jrue Holiday likely staying put with Pelicans

Jrue Holiday likely won’t be going anywhere before the NBA Trade Deadline

The New Orleans Pelicans have experienced a great deal of hardship throughout the first three months of the 2015-16 NBA season. Part of that has been due to a number of injuries, but it’s largely been due to the poor performance of the team as a whole that has seen them fall from preseason dark horse pick to well out of the playoff picture. Subsequently, that might lead many people to thinking that a player like point guard Jrue Holiday could be on the move before the 2016 NBA Trade Deadline.

However, that’s looking increasingly less likely that it’s going to happen in terms of Holiday being on the move. ESPN’s Zach Lowe reported on Tuesday that potential suitors for Holiday (Lowe specifically mentions the Utah Jazz) are scared off by his slew of recent leg injuries that have kept him off the floor for substantial amounts of time over the past few seasons.

Lowe also added that the Pelicans themselves are “reluctant” to trade Holiday regardless of potential trade partners being frightened by injury concerns. As the Pelicans are still trying to build a core around Anthony Davis to contend in the future, they’re going to need young, talented players to make that happen. When healthy, the 25-year-old Holiday certainly fits that mold, hence their unwillingness to move him.

Though his role in New Orleans has been odd this season after he started the year injured and has since largely been coming off of the bench and though there is at least some interest around the league, everything put together indicates that Jrue Holiday is going to be with the Pelicans at least past the deadline and for the remainder of the 2015-16 season.