{"id":102746,"date":"2024-10-24T00:20:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T04:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=102746"},"modified":"2024-10-24T01:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T05:21:21","slug":"pelicans-dejounte-murray-injury-news-exposes-depth-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/10\/24\/pelicans-dejounte-murray-injury-news-exposes-depth-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans\u2019 Dejounte Murray Injury News Exposes Depth Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Pelicans may have to make do without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrade01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dejounte Murray<\/a> for a multiple weeks, as the star point guard \u201cis feared to have a fractured left hand,\u201d per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray is feared to have a fractured left hand, sources tell ESPN. Difficult opening night injury for Pelicans and Murray, who posted 14 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds in season-opening victory over Chicago. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JcDxdoSCKd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/JcDxdoSCKd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1849289932227084781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>(Update: Testing has confirmed that Murray <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1849316621468524932\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has fractured his left hand<\/a>, per Charania. The eight-year NBA veteran has no immediate timeline to return.)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Pelicans\u2019 Dejounte Murray Injury News Exposes Depth Concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Murray likely sustained the injury trying to brace himself while falling in the fourth quarter of their game against the Chicago Bulls. If so, with just over two minutes remaining and a 12-point lead, it was particularly untimely. That being said, the Pelicans\u2019 thin point guard depth might get tested.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray is feared to have a fractured left hand, sources tell ESPN. Difficult opening night injury for Pelicans and Murray, who posted 14 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds in season-opening victory over Chicago. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JcDxdoSCKd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/JcDxdoSCKd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1849289932227084781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alvarjo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jose Alvarado<\/a>, who shut down rumors of being involved in a car accident on Wednesday, could start in Murray\u2019s place. While playing in a high usage role during the Paris Olympics, he demonstrated his scoring potential. As he\u2019s already known as an A-grade defender, there\u2019s a lot to like about the move.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m all good. I was not involved in a car accident today. I was just making sure my friend that was involved was ok and everyone that was there ! Appreciate the concern\u2764\ufe0f <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nx8NFzNJam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nx8NFzNJam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jose Alvarado (@AlvaradoJose15) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlvaradoJose15\/status\/1849129640729682171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another possibility is letting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccolcj01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CJ McCollum<\/a> run the show while Murray rehabs. The 12-year veteran is more of an off-guard, but has enough experience and passing ability to hold down the fort. He even has an advantage over Alvarado in this area. However, McCollum\u2019s defense is nothing to call home about, which puts pressure on his teammates to pick up the slack.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, the Pelicans may <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/10\/17\/pelicans-elfrid-payton-among-recently-waived-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">need to sign<\/a> a trade for another point guard. Being one injury away from calamity is an untenable situation. Though no player they acquire is likely to be on Murray\u2019s level, it makes sense to further fortify the depth at a key position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Pelicans may have to make do without Dejounte Murray for a multiple weeks, as the star point guard \u201cis feared to have a fractured left hand,\u201d per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania. New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray is feared to have a fractured left hand, sources tell ESPN. Difficult opening night injury for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":102748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1608,62,3],"tags":[1934,1262,3854,4745],"class_list":["post-102746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pelicans","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-cj-mccollum","tag-dejounte-murray","tag-jose-alvarado","tag-nba-injuries"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}