Jrue Holiday will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery on his right tibia.

Holiday appeared in 34 games this season with the New Orleans Pelicans.

Holiday was acquired in a draft night trade with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Pierre Jackson will sign with Fenerbahçe Ülker of Turkey if he is not traded to a team that will give him a roster spot ahead of the trade deadline.

Jackson's draft rights are owned by the New Orleans Pelicans and he has emerged this season in the D-League.

The Los Angeles Lakers are seeking a second round pick in their trade talks involving Jordan Hill, according to Marc Stein of ESPN.

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports that the New Orleans Pelicans are backing out of trade talks.

The Brooklyn Nets are also interested in Hill.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have expressed interest in acquiring the draft rights of Pierre Jackson.

Jackson is playing in the D-League and his draft rights are owned by the New Orleans Pelicans. Jackson is averaging 29.1 points and 6.2 assists with the Idaho Stampede. 

The Cavaliers have also discussed a trade for Marcus Thornton or Jason Thompson from the Sacramento Kings.

The New Orleans Pelicans could trade Austin Rivers before the trade deadline, according to a source.

Rivers could be involved in a deal with the rights of Pierre Jackson.

Rivers was the 10th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft and is averaging 5.9 points this season.

The Denver Nuggets and Cleveland Cavaliers are interested in trading for Pierre Jackson.

Jackson's NBA rights are owned by the New Orleans Pelicans.

The Pelicans are already using 15 player slots, but they haven't ruled out bringing Jackson up to their team if a spot becomes available.

Jackson has had an excellent season in the D-League.

The Pelicans have yet to receive a trade offer for Jackson's rights to their liking.

Pierre Jackson has been outstanding in the D-League, but is in a difficult situation in regards to his NBA future.

Jackson was the 42nd overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers and then traded to the New Orleans Pelicans. The Pelicans have not renounced his draft rights to allow him to become a free agent, but they also have not signed him. 

Jackson is averaging 29.1 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 6.2 assists per game for Idaho.

"(Europe's) on the back of my mind," Jackson told CBSSports.com over All-Star Weekend. "My family needs the money. I need to provide for m family so whatever I have to do, I'll have to.

"The NBA's always been my dream, and I think I'm good enough to play there. But the way the cards are dealt, I may have to go overseas for my career."

When the then-New Orleans Hornets traded away Tyson Chandler to the Charlotte Bobcats for Emeka Okafor, Chris Paul and David West began privately discussing the possibility of leaving the franchise.

"[Paul] knew I was going to leave because I knew he was leaving. We had open conversations about that," West said. "The writing was on the wall probably the season, two seasons before that last year."

Paul embraced New Orleans, but the franchise was in turmoil for much of his tenure.

"The toughest thing was the instability. You just never knew what would have happen," Paul said.

Paul's brother, C.J. Paul, said the "final straw" was when West informed them he wouldn't re-sign in free agency.

"We had talked about possibly sticking together. But once he realized that I was gone, I knew he was definitely going to check out," West said. "It was time for us to find new space."

Said Chris Paul: "I missed David West. My partner. My right hand man."

Paul returns to New Orleans this weekend for the All-Star Game as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Milwaukee Bucks are interested in Eric Gordon, who the New Orleans Pelicans are making available in trade talks.

Gordon is in the second season of a $58 million, four-year contract.

Gordon was becoming one of the NBA's best shooting guards until he was slowed by a string of injuries.

With the additions of Jrue Holiday, Eric Gordon, Tyreke Evans and Austin Rivers, there's a popular sentiment around the NBA that Dell Demps has assembled a glorified AAU team for the New Orleans Pelicans.

That collection of four backcourt players are viewed as needing the ball in their hands to be effective, whereas the NBA has moved toward spacing in the halfcourt.

Demps points to the lineup data of the Pelicans' desired closing unit of Holiday, Gordon, Evans, Ryan Anderson and Anthony Davis as being one of the best on offense in the NBA. That lineup has scored 123.5 points per 100 possessions with an assist rate of over 20 percent before they were hit by injuries.

“One of the goals was to make sure we had a team that’s deep and hard to guard,” Demps says. “We wanted to be hard to match up against, and we were before the injuries happened. At times, we were unguardable.”