The Pelicans' real foes aren't the Grizzlies (yet)

New Orleans needs to worry about Portland and Sacramento first.

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Perhaps owed to the Ja Morant-Zion Williamson rivalry, perhaps geographical, perhaps tied to the trailing team’s preferred status on playoff models before the shutdown, it has seemed as though the leading storyline at the bottom of the West playoff bracket has been Grizzlies vs. Pelicans. But that jumps s…