{"id":324491,"date":"2025-12-03T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324491\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:41:08","slug":"zion-williamson-out-at-least-three-weeks-with-adductor-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324491\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Williamson Out At Least Three Weeks With Adductor Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

3:48 pm:\u00a0The Pelicans put out a press release (via Twitter<\/a>) confirming the news. According to the team, Williamson underwent imaging on Tuesday which revealed a Grade 2 right hip adductor strain. There\u2019s no official timetable for his return.<\/p>\n

\"\"3:12 pm: Pelicans forward Zion Williamson<\/a> has been diagnosed with a right adductor injury and will miss at least three weeks, which is the next time he\u2019ll be reexamined, reports Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A two-time All-Star, Williamson has been plagued by injuries throughout his time in the NBA after being selected No. 1 overall out of Duke in the 2019 draft. This season has been no exception, with Williamson missing eight games last month with a Grade 1 left hamstring strain<\/a> prior to his latest ailment.<\/p>\n

According to Charania (Twitter link<\/a>), Williamson has a strained adductor, which a muscle in the hip, and will be out an extended period of time \u2014 far longer than the two-plus weeks he missed with the hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear when Williamson\u2019s adductor injury occurred, but he last suited up on Saturday, when New Orleans lost at Golden State. Through 10 games in 2025\/26, the 25-year-old averaged 22.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.6 steals in 30.9 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n

Williamson has been limited to 30 games or fewer in four of his first full six years in the NBA, including missing the entire 2021\/22 campaign. He has dealt with a variety of different injuries throughout his career.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans have once again been hit hard by injuries this fall, with their five highest-paid players<\/a> \u2014 and seven total \u2014 all sidelined on Sunday. That figure includes Williamson, who was held out of the second night of a back-to-back \u2014 he makes the most money on the team on his maximum-salary contract.<\/p>\n

New Orleans qualify for a hardship exception<\/a> in the wake of the injuries, depending on how long other players will be out (Dejounte Murray<\/a> presumably isn\u2019t close to returning after rupturing his Achilles at the end of January). Still, that\u2019s of little consolation to a club that does not control its 2026 first-round pick and currently holds the worst record in the NBA at 3-18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3:48 pm:\u00a0The Pelicans put out a press release (via Twitter) confirming the news. According to the team, Williamson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,7226],"class_list":{"0":"post-324491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-zion-williamson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}