{"id":497813,"date":"2026-03-01T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497813\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:49:10","slug":"pelicans-zion-williamson-tweaks-ankle-in-win-over-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497813\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans&#8217; Zion Williamson &#8216;tweaks&#8217; ankle in win over Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY, Utah &#8212; Pelicans forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395628\/zion-williamson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Williamson<\/a> has another potential injury to deal with after leaving New Orleans&#8217; game at Utah in the second quarter Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans announced Williamson would not return due to an injury to his right ankle in a game New Orleans went on to win 115-105.<\/p>\n<p>Interim coach James Borrego said Williams &#8220;tweaked the ankle,&#8221; but didn&#8217;t have an immediate update on severity of the injury. &#8220;Hopefully, it&#8217;s nothing serious, and we&#8217;ll have him back out there very soon,&#8221; Borrego said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the latest setback for the oft-injured player who had already missed 16 games this season due to various ailments. The game against Utah was the two-time All-Star&#8217;s 35th straight &#8212; an NBA career-best for Williamson &#8212; dating to Dec. 11, after he sat out five games with a right hip adductor strain.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson had four points, two assists and a rebound in 11 minutes of playing time against Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Pelicans with the No. 1 pick in the 2019 draft out of Duke, Williams has been limited to playing just 258 of 543 potential regular-season games, and never more than 25 in a row before this most recent stretch. He also missed the entire 2021-22 season with a broken right foot.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans&#8217; lineup was already depleted in playing without small forward Trey Murphy (right shoulder), center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5061589\/yves-missi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yves Missi<\/a> (left calf) and guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3907497\/dejounte-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dejounte Murray<\/a> (reconditioning).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY, Utah &#8212; Pelicans forward Zion Williamson has another potential injury to deal with after leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-497813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}