Skip to main content
143 Basketball Haven143 Basketball Haven
In the rafters

New Orleans Pelicans Retired Numbers

The New Orleans Pelicans have retired 2 numbers. Each one below records who wore it, the seasons they wore it, and what earned it a place in the rafters.

Back to New Orleans Pelicans

  1. Bill Russell

    League-wide honor (2022)

  2. Pete Maravich

    1974–1979 (New Orleans Jazz)

    On January 5, 1988, Pete Maravich collapsed on a church basketball court in Pasadena, California, and died at forty years old. He had played pickup basketball that morning feeling great, telling a friend he had never felt better in his life. Doctors later discovered what should have been impossible: Maravich had been born without a left coronary artery. By all medical understanding, he should not have survived childhood, let alone a fourteen-year professional basketball career.

    Why #7 was retired

1 of these 2 numbers are still awaiting a full write-up.