Willie Green's time in New Orleans will be remembered a lot like so many of the games he coached.

He got off to a pretty good start. But things didn't go so well down the stretch.

Green was fired Saturday morning , 12 games into his fifth season as Pelicans coach.

Truth be told, Joe Dumars didn’t have to bring Green back this season.

Dumars, hired in April as the executive vice president of basketball operations, could have looked at Green’s 21-61 record last season and said “No thanks.”

Instead, Dumars looked at the season before that when Green — with a healthy roster and more importantly a healthy Zion Williamson — led the Pelicans to the second-most victories in franchise history.

It was fair to give him another shot.

Judge Green on his entire body of work and not just on one

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