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Anthony Davis’ return to New Orleans: The latest chapter in a complex history with the Crescent City


NEW ORLEANS — Like the would-be savior of this city in the Levon Helm song “Hurricane,” Anthony Davis arrived from Chicago.

In the song, the Midwesterner is here to set the levee right against a coming storm, but a local fights his advice to raise the dam.

Don’t you listen to that boy

The water will be down by morning, son

And he’ll be back on his way to Illinois

If Chris Trew had been similarly skeptical of Davis, he might have saved himself some heartache.

Trew is a born and raised New Orleanian, a standup comic and Pelicans diehard who used to taunt the visiting superstars from behind the road team’s bench at the Smoothie King Center. He loves it here, but he sometimes wishes his hometown was as hung up as he is on hoops.

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So when Davis arrived a rising tide in 2012, Trew gave into optimism that he would lift basketball in the city. If there were…





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