The Pelicans play their home games at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. During the 2021/22 NBA season, the average regular season home attendance for a Pelicans game was 15,510 and total attendance for that season amounted to 635,941. The team generated around 268 million U.S. dollars in revenue during the 2021/22 season and, in that same season, had an operating income of approximately 94 million U.S. dollars. As of 2022, the franchise value for the New Orleans Pelicans amounted to an estimated 1.6 billion U.S. dollars and the team is currently owned by Gayle Benson, following the death of her husband, American businessman Tom Benson, in 2018.
The Pelicans have made seven play-off appearances since their inception, but have never appeared in either an NBA conference final nor a championship final. The franchise has a combined total of over three million fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter.