Just two weeks after joining the New Orleans Pelicans, Gal Mekel finds himself on the waiver wire once more following his release from the NBA franchise on Friday.
The 26-year-old Israeli guard played just four games for New Orleans, averaging 1.5 points and 3.3 assists over 10.9 minutes of action. He spent over a month as a free agent following his release by the Dallas Mavericks at the start of the season, eventually signing a two-year non-guaranteed contract with the Pelicans, who activated a clause in his contract which allowed them to release him without compensation before January 10.
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"We thought he did a good job, (but) there are some particulars financially that I am not going to discuss," he explained. "We like (Mekel) a lot. That doesn't mean we won't bring him back. But at this point we felt like we were going to go in a different direction. He was a positive for our team."
