{"id":280884,"date":"2025-11-13T18:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280884\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:13:09","slug":"new-orleans-pelicans-star-zion-williamson-cleared-for-on-court-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280884\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson cleared for on-court activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/zion-williamson-358177\/1132025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/zion-williamson-358177\/1132025\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Williamson<\/a> has been cleared to resume on-court basketball activities with contact, the team said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williamson has missed the last five games after being diagnosed with a Grade 1 left hamstring strain Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williamson is averaging 22.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 2.0 steals this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Pelicans are off to a 2-9 start and have lost three straight without Williamson and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jordan-poole\/1067671\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jordan-poole\/1067671\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Poole<\/a>, who has missed four straight games with a left quad strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/dejounte-murray\/884168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/dejounte-murray\/884168\" target=\"_blank\">Dejounte Murray<\/a> is also out as he makes his way back from a torn Achilles suffered at the end of last January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson has been cleared to resume on-court basketball activities with contact, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,127918,82,127919],"class_list":["post-280884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-3","tag-sports","tag-zion-williamson-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1132025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280884","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=280884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}