{"id":426303,"date":"2025-02-01T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=426303"},"modified":"2025-02-01T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:48:55","slug":"dejounte-murray-suffers-torn-achilles-out-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dejounte-murray-suffers-torn-achilles-out-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejounte Murray Suffers Torn Achilles, Out for the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray suffered a season-ending torn Achilles tendon during Friday\u2019s 118-116 loss to the Boston Celtics, sources told <em>ESPN<\/em>. The injury was confirmed after initial tests, marking another devastating setback for the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Murray was hurt after chasing his own missed shot, collapsing to the floor while clutching his lower right leg. He managed to get up but limped off toward the Pelicans&#8217; bench and was ruled out immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s extremely difficult to see a guy who means so much to our team go down like that,\u201d head coach Willie Green said postgame.<\/p>\n<p>Already missing Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram, and Herb Jones, the Pelicans (12-27) now face another significant loss. Murray, who had already missed 17 games with a broken hand, was averaging 17.9 points, 7.6 assists, and 2.1 steals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hurts a lot, I can&#8217;t lie,&#8221; said Trey Murphy III, who scored 40 points. &#8220;Sometimes God puts you through situations for a bigger reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dejounte Murray was helped to the locker room after suffering an apparent non-contact injury on this play \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4HVeiNwduI\">pic.twitter.com\/4HVeiNwduI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1885503487158464599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelicans guard goes down in loss to Celtics, dealing another blow to injury-riddled team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-426303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-Orleans-Pelicans.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426303"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=426303"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=426303"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=426303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}