One of the worst seasons in New Orleans Pelicans’ history comes to an end Sunday.

That we know for sure.

What we don’t know is if it’s also the end of an era.

Is the David Griffin era over?

What about the Willie Green era?

Oh, and let’s not forget about the Zion Williamson era.

Only Pelicans owner Gayle Benson knows the answer to those questions. A frustrated fanbase anxiously will await her answers as the clock strikes zero Sunday in the season finale against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Pelicans enter Sunday’s game 21-60, the second-worst record in franchise history.

They are coming off the most lopsided loss in team history, a 153-104 Friday night beatdown by the Miami Heat. No team has ever scored that many points against the Pelicans. And no team had ever beaten the Pelicans by 49 points.

Not many teams can say they suffered the worst loss in franchise history twice in a 25-day span. But not many teams have been quite as bad as these Pelicans, who lost by 46 points on St. Patrick’s Day to the Detroit Pistons to tie the old mark for the worst loss. At the time, you probably thought that was the low point of the season.

They dipped even lower Friday, trailing by as many as 52 at one point. How bad was it? The Heat had more players reach double figures (10) in scoring than the Pelicans had players dressed out for the game (eight).

One injury after another decimated the season. It’s a big reason the Pelicans went from having the second-best record in team history last season to where they are now.

Griffin has brought some talented players to New Orleans in his six seasons calling the shots. Unfortunately, hardly any of that talent was available this season.

“When these types of things happen, they really reveal a lot about who you are and what your team represents,” Griffin said in February. “And unfortunately for us, I think it’s revealed we have a lot of work to do from a front office perspective, from a team-building perspective.”

The question is who will be doing that team building?

Benson has to decide whether Griffin gets a seventh season. The Pelicans have made the playoffs twice in his six seasons. They increased their win total in his first five seasons before nose diving this year.

He’s brought plenty of good pieces to New Orleans, but those pieces sometimes just haven’t quite fit (like Williamson and Brandon Ingram together). Or those pieces have been broken (with all types of injuries). With the Pelicans back in the NBA lottery again with the fourth-worst record in the NBA, will Benson let Griffin continue to try to reach the sustainability he’s been trying to get to?

Green, meanwhile, has made the playoffs in two of his four seasons and increased his win total every year before this one. This season, one in which he was dealt as bad of a hand as possible, has been downright brutal. The Pelicans lost four games by 40 or more points, including Friday’s game when Green was playing with mostly G-Leaguers.

In addition to those blowout losses, the Pelicans have had a nine-game losing streak, a 10-game losing streak and an 11-game losing streak. But Green, as Houston Rockets coach Ime Udoka reminded me earlier this season, didn’t just wake up one day and forget how to coach.

“You see great coaches struggle at times throughout their career when injuries hit seasons,” Udoka said. “It’s not that they’re a worse coach all of a sudden.”

But in the NBA, especially this season, we’ve seen coaches with far better seasons lose their jobs. Michael Malone (Denver Nuggets), Taylor Jenkins (Memphis Grizzlies) and Mike Brown (Sacramento Kings) were fired during the season despite all leading teams that made it to at least the play-in tournament.

Will Benson lean on Green’s struggles this season? Or will she take into account what he did last season when playing with a full deck?

And then there is Williamson, who showed once again just how dominant he can be, averaging career highs in both assists and rebounds. The problem is he only showed it 30 times as injuries and load management limited his play once again.

To his credit, he was in the best shape he’s been in since Griffin selected him with the first overall pick in the 2019 draft. Has the Zion experiment run its course or do the Pelicans believe in him enough to run it back again? 

If they do run it back, will Green be the one coaching him?

Will Griffin be the one deciding whether Green is the one coaching him?

Those are all questions for Benson to answer.