{"id":809689,"date":"2024-12-02T00:28:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T06:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/pelicans-williamson-hamstring-out-indefinitely\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T00:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T06:28:05","slug":"pelicans-williamson-hamstring-out-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/pelicans-williamson-hamstring-out-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans&#8217; Williamson (hamstring) out indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>ESPN News Services<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Nov 9, 2024, 02:32 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9461f397-7882-94c0-c18c-e89bdc9e570e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/no\/new-orleans-pelicans\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> star forward <a data-player-guid=\"34e5ec5d-10b3-ba59-2ba1-3a3be9a1be22\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395628\/zion-williamson\">Zion Williamson<\/a> has been diagnosed with a left hamstring strain and is out indefinitely, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson is expected to miss several weeks, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans said medical imaging taken Saturday morning confirmed the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson suffered the injury in the second quarter of the Pelicans&#8217; loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec79ad1f-e6d2-7762-a2db-7fe97d35126b\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-cavaliers\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> on Wednesday, checking himself out of the game before returning to score 23 points in the second half. He didn&#8217;t play in Friday&#8217;s loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"74c23102-8c27-c8e6-ec1b-8a8fd4d42554\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\">Orlando Magic<\/a>, his fourth missed game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is a devastating blow for the Pelicans and Williamson, who team officials believe has been in the best shape of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Pelicans selected Williamson first overall out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/150\/duke-blue-devils\">Duke<\/a> in the 2019 draft, the 6-foot-6, 284-pound power forward has missed 210 out of a possible 400 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson&#8217;s injury is the latest for a struggling Pelicans team that was missing six of its top eight scorers, including <a data-player-guid=\"069547d0-66e5-79d2-06ac-195011e77472\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3907497\/dejounte-murray\">Dejounte Murray<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397688\/trey-murphy-iii\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Murphy III<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"650bab3d-b658-cba4-a596-044c1e1fa8c0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2490149\/cj-mccollum\">CJ McCollum<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"1dbd1267-8773-3a16-8827-d24950410a5a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4683750\/jordan-hawkins\">Jordan Hawkins<\/a>, against the Magic. Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4277813\/herbert-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Herb Jones<\/a> has also been out of the lineup due to a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans, who have lost four in a row and seven of their past eight games, are off until Monday, when they host the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"926db769-d35e-e282-9d7e-a05001d774ab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bkn\/brooklyn-nets\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxOMk1ySHphNjN4VGFIbXl0NDdFYkhId0NNVlVCODN0Vng2VWlWdm1NaW5ueHczQUJ6Q25qU3MyRzFvUHlXUmhyNFl6alo0NXZobHpud2xaT09KYjVHZ1d3d0ZWOFd5QWRrTmhHQThZSjQxZEZwYjVuR1pIbWNDRUE1MmtsbHhYRE5TVUFnUk5uSWhKVjQwZVhOMDBQUUwySTA0?oc=5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN News Services Nov 9, 2024, 02:32 PM ET New Orleans Pelicans star forward Zion Williamson has been diagnosed with a left hamstring strain and is out indefinitely, the team announced Saturday. Williamson is expected to miss several weeks, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania. The Pelicans said medical imaging taken Saturday morning confirmed the injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24161,1838],"tags":[45703,7155],"class_list":{"0":"post-809689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pelicans","8":"category-williamson","9":"tag-pelicans","10":"tag-williamson"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}