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Sources: Pels' Williamson out at least 3 weeks
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson has a grade 2 right hip adductor strain, the team announced on Tuesday.
Williamson, who already missed 11 games earlier this season, will be reevaluated in three weeks, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.
Williamson missed eight straight games in November because of a hamstring injury. He recently missed two games after he returned from that injury because the games were the second of a back-to-back set, respectively.
Williamson, 25, is averaging 22.1 points and 5.6 rebounds in 10 games this season, his seventh with the Pelicans.
Since being selected with the No. 1 pick in the 2019 draft, Williamson has played in just 224 out of a possible 493 games (45%) for the Pelicans, according to ESPN Research.
Has Zion already played his final game for Pelicans? Latest injury sets up needed split
Once again, Zion Williamson is injured. This time, the team announced, he's dealing with a grade 2 right hip adductor strain. According to ESPN, he will be re-evaluated in three weeks. Where Williamson is concerned, these early timelines tend not to be especially helpful. He might be out three weeks. He might be out three months.
There was a time in which the Pelicans could do little but hope for the former. You make allowances for No. 1 overall picks. Williamson is a genuine All-NBA talent. Even this season, despite the injuries, only Giannis Antetokounmpo is scoring more points in the paint per game than he is. There's a superstar in there. The Pelicans have spent seven years trying to find it. But we may finally have reached a breaking point here.
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Pelicans' Zion Williamson (adductor strain) out indefinitely
Zion Williamson, the No. 1 overall in the 2019 Draft, has missed 12 of the Pelicans’ 22 games this season.
In his 10 games this season, Zion Williamson has averaged 22.1 points and 5.6 rebounds.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Pelicans announced Tuesday that injury-plagued forward Zion Williamson has a grade 2 right hip adductor strain and will be sidelined indefinitely.
Williamson, who missed eight consecutive games earlier this season with a strained hamstring, did not play as a precaution in the second game of a back-to-back on Sunday night against the Los Angeles Lakers, but he was not listed on the injury report after that game and was expected to play Tuesday.
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