{"id":632225,"date":"2026-03-01T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/632225\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:51:37","slug":"oft-injured-new-orleans-pelicans-forward-zion-williamson-tweaks-right-ankle-in-win-over-utah-jazz-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/632225\/","title":{"rendered":"Oft-injured New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson &#8216;tweaks&#8217; right ankle in win over Utah Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/new-orleans-pelicans-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pelicans<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/zion-williamson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Williamson<\/a> has another potential injury to deal with after leaving New Orleans\u2019 game at Utah in the second quarter Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">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 class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Interim coach James Borrego said Williams \u201ctweaked the ankle,\u201d but didn&#8217;t have an immediate update on severity of the injury. \u201cHopefully, it&#8217;s nothing serious, and we&#8217;ll have him back out there very soon,\u201d Borrego said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">It\u2019s 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\u2019s 35th straight \u2014 an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> career-best for Williamson \u2014 dating to Dec. 11, after he sat out five games with a right hip adductor strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Williamson had four points, two assists and a rebound in 11 minutes of playing time against Utah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">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 class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Pelicans\u2019 lineup was already depleted in playing without small forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/trey-murphy-iii-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Murphy<\/a> (right shoulder), center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/yves-missi-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yves Missi<\/a> (left calf) and guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/dejounte-murray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dejounte Murray<\/a> (reconditioning).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) \u2014 Pelicans forward Zion Williamson has another potential injury to deal with after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,2878,423,1407,6,470,6514,422,427,3972,1259,814],"class_list":{"0":"post-632225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dejounte-murray","10":"tag-jazz","11":"tag-national-basketball-association","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","14":"tag-trey-murphy-iii","15":"tag-utah","16":"tag-utah-jazz","17":"tag-utahjazz","18":"tag-yves-missi","19":"tag-zion-williamson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116153777181394523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}