{"id":646949,"date":"2026-03-08T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/646949\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:33:21","slug":"are-zion-williamson-trey-murphy-iii-playing-pelicans-kings-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/646949\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Zion Williamson, Trey Murphy III playing? Pelicans-Kings injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> will play the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night. Zion Williamson<\/a> and Trey Murphy III are among the Pelicans dealing with injuries<\/a>, so are they playing tonight?<\/p>\n

Williamson is battling a right ankle sprain<\/a>, while Murphy is dealing with a neck spasm. Here’s everything we know about Williamson and Murphy’s injury statuses for tonight’s game vs. the Kings.<\/p>\n

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Zion Williamson, Trey Murphy III’s injury statuses vs. Kings<\/p>\n

Williamson and Murphy are both currently listed as questionable to play<\/a> on the NBA injury<\/a> report.<\/p>\n

Both the Pelicans and Kings have struggled this season. New Orleans is 19-44 and in 13th place in the Western Conference standings, while Sacramento’s 14-49 record has the team sitting in last place in the West.<\/p>\n

The Kings are currently without stars such as Zach LaVine and Domantas Sabonis due to injuries. Williamson and Murphy’s final injury statuses will go a long way toward determining the outcome of Thursday’s game.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the question of if Zion Williamson and Trey Murphy III are playing tonight vs. the Kings, the answer is maybe.<\/p>\n

Pelicans’ injury report<\/p>\n

The Pelicans have six players listed on the injury report for Thursday night’s game.<\/p>\n

Zion Williamson (right ankle sprain): Questionable
\nTrey Murphy III (neck spasm): Questionable
\nDejounte Murray (return to competition reconditioning): Out
\nTrey Alexander (G League two-way): Out
\nHunter Dickinson (G League two-way): Out
\nJosh Oduro (G League two-way): Out
\nKings’ injury report<\/p>\n

The Kings have five players listed on the injury report.<\/p>\n

Zach LaVine (right 5th finger tendon repair): Out
\nDylan Cardwell (left ankle sprain): Out
\nDe’Andre Hunter (left eye retinal repair): Out
\nKeegan Murray (left ankle sprain): Out
\nDomantas Sabonis (left knee meniscus repair): Out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Pelicans will play the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night. Zion Williamson and Trey Murphy III…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,14502,478,470,4073,4072,675,6514,814],"class_list":{"0":"post-646949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-injury","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanspelicans","15":"tag-pelicans","16":"tag-trey-murphy-iii","17":"tag-zion-williamson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116193106838752545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646949","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=646949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}