Derik Queen on injury recovery, camp competition | Pelicans Training Camp 2025

Okay. So, we’ve been seeing you out here on the court a lot. Looks like you’re doing pretty well as far as you recovering, getting back. How are you feeling? Feeling good uh day by day. Got to get my wrist stronger and more flexion in my wrist. See your ability to catch the ball. What can’t you do yet? What kind of restrictions do you have still? I can pretty much do everything. It’s kind of still hard for me to dribble. Uh can’t do contact. So, everything, but like I can dribble, but give me a little bit of pain and I just can’t do contact yet. You still think it might be realistic to think you could be get ready for opening day, the season opener? Yeah, possibly. I don’t know. Possibly. What’s been standing out to you so far about this team watching them on the court in training camp? Just the competitiveness like uh just like Herod and Zion going at it like they don’t it like it don’t doesn’t matter who’s out there. They just going to compete, grab each other, push each other around, compete and all that. How are you able to continue to learn and like improve things that you need to improve on even though you can’t fully participate? Uh kind of like a visual learner. Just keep uh and just work on it when um when I have the time to right now, but just just uh visualizing. How excited are you to get back out on the court? Um very excited. Can’t wait. Does it feel good to at least still be like do some shooting, do some drills and stuff? Yeah, definitely. What do you make of the change in pace of play between What do you make of a change of pace of play between uh summer league and what you’re watching happen at camp? Yeah, these dudes out here be moving. They’re all athletic uh strong and all that. So, I mean, they growing, man. So, it’s just definitely a a change of pace and change a notch up a

New Orleans Pelicans forward/center Derik Queen speaks with the media following practice on Day 4 of Pelicans Training Camp at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025.
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