The New Orleans Pelicans , fresh off their week-long stay in Australia, are still readjusting to the time difference.

Rookie guard Jeremiah Fears has been waking up at 4 in the morning and staring at the ceiling.

Zion Williamson , meanwhile, wakes up around 2 or 3 a.m. before falling back asleep three hours later.

But the sleepless nights now are well worth it for what the team got out of getting to build chemistry almost 9,000 miles away in Melbourne.

The Pelicans held practice Thursday for the first time since their return late Monday night.

“It was really good bonding time for our whole group,” said Pelicans' coach Willie Green. “I learned that they are all competitors in a basketball sense. They step on the floor and they want to compete. They play hard and they play for each o

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