Brandon Ingram has been named the NBA's Most Improved Player for the 19-20 season. Ingram receiving 42 of 100 first place votes, 35 second place votes and 11 second place votes.

Ingram beat out Bam Adebayo and Luka Doncic.

Jayson Tatum and Devonte Graham finished fourth and fifth.

Tyronn Lue would like to be a head coach in the NBA again and there are at least three prominent openings in which he's been linked as a candidate in the Philadelphia 76ers, New Orleans Pelicans and Brooklyn Nets.

Sources tell The Athletic that Lue could also be a candidate for the Houston Rockets should they move on from Mike D'Antoni.

Lue was looking for five years at $7 million per year from the Los Angeles Lakers, a deal commensurate with having won a title, but the closest they’d get was three years and $20 million.

League sources say the Pelicans are likely to cap their budget for a head coach at $5.5 million per season.

Ty Lue has emerged as a candidate for head coaching positions with the Brooklyn Nets, New Orleans Pelicans, Philadelphia 76ers and Houston Rockets. The 76ers and Rockets have yet to make a decision on their head coaches for the 20-21 season, while the Nets will consider retaining Jacque Vaughn. 

Lue turned down an offer to become head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers last offseason as he was only offered a three-year deal.

Lue instead agreed to become assistant coach of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Lue could bring Chauncey Billups as an associate head coach.

The New Orleans Pelicans have fired Alvin Gentry as head coach.

In Gentry's five seasons, the Pelicans went 175-225 although often beset with injuries.

The Pelicans are expected to consider Jason Kidd, Ty Lue, Kenny Atkinson, as well as Jacque Vaughn if he's not retained by the Brooklyn Nets.

David Griffin has a working history with both Kidd and Lue.

Zion Williamson acknowledged he needs to improve both his game and body this offseason.

"I'll talk to my coaches and see what I need to do better from their point of view," Williamson said Thursday morning. "Talk to my player development coaches as well, see what I need to do better from their point of view. Just work on every part of my game and work on getting my body where it needs to be."

When asked just where he felt he needed his body to be, Williamson said, "That's a conversation I'll have with my team. We'll sit down, see what they need me to do better, then I can give you a better answer to that."

Williamson's weight and conditioning were a conversation as the restart began.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion," Williamson said. "But I'm going to stick to the opinions of the people closest to me and my team and just go from there."

Tyronn Lue is expected to be a leading candidate for "several" coaching openings across the league, sources told Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated.

Lue is currently the lead assistant for the Clippers.

Lue has already been linked with the Nets coaching search, though Jacque Vaughn reportedly will be strongly considered to keep the job.  

Mannix also lists the Pelicans, Rockets, and Sixers as teams who may be looking for a new head coach this offseason.

Lue last coached in the NBA in the 2018-19 season. 

Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram, and Jrue Holiday are ruled out for the New Orleans Pelicans' Tuesday game against the Sacramento Kings.

Williamson and Ingram are listed out with right knee soreness, with Holiday out due to a right elbow contusion.

"It's just a precautionary thing, really. We sat down and just agreed that it's the right thing to do right now," said Alvin Gentry.

The Pelicans are officially eliminated from playoff contention.

The Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Pelicans were officially eliminated from playoff contention after both teams lost on Sunday.

The Rockets beat the Kings 129-112, with the Kings failing to make the playoffs for 14 consecutive seasons.

The Pelicans lost to the Spurs 122-113, with Zion Williamson calling out his team's lack of energy.

"That lack of spirit in the first half really dictates the second half. If we came out better, maybe we would've had a different outcome. You just have to learn from that experience and be better," said Williamson following the loss.

The Grizzlies' 108-99 loss to the Raptors also guaranteed a play-in game for the final seed in the Western Conference.

The Grizzlies currently have a 62% chance of getting the 8th seed, according to ESPN's BPI Playoff Odds.

"I'm not worried about no play-in game right now," said Ja Morant following the loss. 

The New Orleans Pelicans will have a decision to make on the future of Alvin Gentry as he enters the final season of his existing deal, sources tell ESPN.

If the Pelicans do make a coaching change, sources say Ty Lue and Jason Kidd could emerge as candidates. David Griffin has a relationship with both coaches dating back years.

The Milwaukee Bucks fired Jason Kidd during the 17-18 season, while the Cleveland Cavaliers parted ways with Lue at the beginning of the 18-19 season.

Both Kidd and Lue have been head coaching candidates for several other jobs since.

Zion Williamson will sit out Friday's game against the Washington Wizards for rest.

The game is the second half of a back-to-back after the New Orleans Pelicans lost on Thursday against the Sacramento Kings.