{"id":216178,"date":"2025-10-16T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216178\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:43:07","slug":"pelicans-kevon-looney-likely-out-2-3-weeks-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216178\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans&#8217; Kevon Looney likely out 2-3 weeks with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 15, 2025, 08:39 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>METAIRIE, La. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/no\/new-orleans-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3155535\/kevon-looney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevon Looney<\/a> has been diagnosed with a left knee injury that is expected to sideline him for at least two to three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans announced Looney&#8217;s injury status Wednesday, referring specifically to his ailment as a proximal tibiofibular ligament sprain.<\/p>\n<p>The injury occurred during a preseason exhibition in game in Australia against the South East Melbourne Phoenix on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46553585\/biggest-injury-returns-2025-26-nba-season-wembanyama-zion-embiid\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nba_biggest_injury_1296x1296.png&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.png\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46554922\/simulating-2025-2026-nba-season-predictions-nba-cup-playoffs-finals-champion-draft-lottery\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nba_season-simulation_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-9 Looney, who is entering his 11th NBA season, was part of three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> title-winning teams. He has averaged 5 points and 5.7 rebounds during his career and was among the more prominent free-agent acquisitions made this offseason by Joe Dumars, the Pelicans&#8217; new executive vice president of basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans&#8217; other centers include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061589\/yves-missi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yves Missi<\/a>, a 2024 first-round draft choice out of Baylor.<\/p>\n<p>Missi played in 73 games as a rookie, starting 67, and averaged 9.1 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.3 blocks in 26.8 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans open the regular season Oct. 22 at Memphis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 15, 2025, 08:39 PM ET METAIRIE, La. &#8212; New Orleans Pelicans center Kevon Looney has been diagnosed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-216178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}