{"id":87692,"date":"2024-07-28T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=87692"},"modified":"2024-07-28T06:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:32:11","slug":"pelicans-jose-alvarado-injury-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/07\/28\/pelicans-jose-alvarado-injury-paris-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans Fan Favorite Suffers Injury During Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Puerto Rico\u2019s first game of the Paris Olympics, New Orleans Pelicans point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alvarjo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jose Alvarado<\/a> had to be helped off the court after his teammate stepped on his foot in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pelicans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Pelicans<\/a> guard Jose Alvarado (19 pts in the 1st half) suffered what looks like Olympic tournament ending right leg injury<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PuertoRico?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PuertoRico<\/a> leading against <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SouthSudan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SouthSudan<\/a> at the half 54-48 <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VPzZ5TSy7j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/VPzZ5TSy7j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darko D\u017eeletovi\u0107 (@DarDZel) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarDZel\/status\/1817499954564252031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Leading both Puerto Rico and opponent South Sudan with 19 points at halftime. He wasn\u2019t on the court to start the second half. However, he did return early in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<h2>Pelicans\u2019 Jose Alvarado Suffers Injury During Paris Olympics<\/h2>\n<p>This is a big blow not only to Puerto Rico <em>and<\/em> potentially the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Named an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/07\/08\/olympics-pelicans-defensive-menace-jose-alvarado-hero-puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">MVP of the 2024 Olympic Qualifiers<\/a>, Alvarado is key to Puerto Rico\u2019s success. Though they aren\u2019t projected to win a medal, they\u2019re hoping to. Playing for pride and country, Puerto Rico\u2019s brought the fight every game they\u2019ve been in this year.<\/p>\n<p>With that being said, Alvarado\u2019s fiery defense and shot-making flurries have been a sight to behold in his national colors. Yet, it\u2019s nothing new to NBA fans.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best perimeter defenders in the NBA, the New York native has averaged 20.0 minutes per game the past two seasons. In 2023-24, he came in sixth in Sixth Man of the Year voting after averaging 7.1 points and 1.1 steals per game. Though those numbers are admittedly modest, he notably knocked down a career-high 37.7 percent of his 3-pointers while ranking sixth on the team in total 3s and steals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrade01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dejounte Murray<\/a> was always going to get the lion\u2019s share of minutes at point guard next season. Nonetheless, nobody has ever played 48 minutes per game for an entire season. The Pelicans need somebody to play minutes behind him and likely prefer it to be Alvarado. This seems particularly true after they traded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/daniedy01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dyson Daniels<\/a>, another two-way playmaker, to the Atlanta Hawks for Murray.<\/p>\n<p>Again, there hasn\u2019t been an update on the severity of Alvarado\u2019s injury. However, athletes have often played through pain and exacerbated the injury. Furthermore, because it\u2019s what looked like an ankle or Achilles injury, there\u2019s even trickier prognosis.<\/p>\n<p>Hypothetically, Alvarado will be fine. Nonetheless, it\u2019s a situation worth monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Puerto Rico\u2019s first game of the Paris Olympics, New Orleans Pelicans point guard Jose Alvarado had to be helped off the court after his teammate stepped on his foot in the second quarter. #Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado (19 pts in the 1st half) suffered what looks like Olympic tournament ending right leg injury#PuertoRico leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":87693,"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":[33,1608,62,60],"tags":[3854,4745,1052],"class_list":["post-87692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pelicans","category-basketball","category-nba","category-olympics","tag-jose-alvarado","tag-nba-injuries","tag-olympics"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87692","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=87692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}