2023–24 New Orleans Pelicans season

The 2023–24 New Orleans Pelicans season was the 22nd season of the New Orleans Pelicans franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The Pelicans won the West Group B of the 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament after going undefeated at 3–1 in the group stage. They defeated the Sacramento Kings in the quarterfinals, but were later eliminated from the tournament with a loss to the eventual inaugural tournament champions Los Angeles Lakers in the semifinals.

The Pelicans finished the regular season with a 49–33 record, finishing 7th in the West. The team returned to the playoffs after a one-year absence, defeating the Sacramento Kings in the second game of the NBA play-in tournament to clinch the 8th seed after losing to the seventh-seeded Los Angeles Lakers in the first game. However, they were swept in the first round by the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder.

The New Orleans Pelicans drew an average home attendance of 17,301 in 40 home games in the 2023-24 NBA season, the 24th highest in the league. The total attendance was 692,054.

The Pelicans had one first-round pick entering the draft.

This was the first regular season where all the NBA teams competed in a mid-season tournament setting due to the implementation of the 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament. During the in-season tournament period, the Pelicans competed in Group B of the Western Conference, which included the defending champion Denver Nuggets, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Houston Rockets. Despite having a couple of scares by not only losing to the Houston Rockets and barely not scoring enough points to overtake the Phoenix Suns for the wild card spot had it been deemed necessary, the Pelicans ultimately managed to secure Group B's top seed for the in-season tournament. In the first knockout round, the Pelicans beat the winners of Group C, the Sacramento Kings, by a final score of 127–117 on the road. Tragically, during that night, a 34-year-old Kings fan named Gregorio "Greg" Florez Breedlove had a medical emergency during the first quarter of that game and died 20 minutes after emergency medical services arrived to try and help him out. For their semifinal game that also counted as their 82nd game of the regular season, their opponent was the Los Angeles Lakers, who were considered the home team in the neutral site of the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada due to their record in the In-Season Tournament. The Pelicans would suffer a brutal, crushing defeat to the Lakers in their December 7 match-up, with the Lakers winning 133-89 that night.