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Star Player Receives Updated Injury Status for Pelicans-Bulls

The New Orleans Pelicans have updated their injury report against the Chicago Bulls.
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Jan 7, 2025; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray (5) and New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson (1) celebrate a three-point basket made by Murray with an assist from Williamson during the first half against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Smoothie King Center.
Jan 7, 2025; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray (5) and New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson (1) celebrate a three-point basket made by Murray with an assist from Williamson during the first half against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Smoothie King Center. | Matthew Hinton-Imagn Images

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The New Orleans Pelicans are facing the Chicago Bulls at United Center on Tuesday night. Looking for their ninth win of the season, New Orleans is facing a talented Bulls team that could look very different post-trade deadline.

At 18-21, the Bulls have remained in the Eastern Conference Play-In picture, but will likely make some significant moves to further their rebuild effort. New Orleans could be in a similar situation, but is much further down the Western Conference standings than Chicago is in the East.

Star guard Dejounte Murray is one player contending teams could have interest in, and he received an injury status update for this game against the Bulls.

Dejounte Murray
Jan 10, 2025; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray (5) shoots against the Philadelphia 76ers during the fourth quarter at Wells Fargo Center. | Bill Streicher-Imagn Images

The Pelicans announced that Murray has been upgraded to available after being listed as probable with right elbow tendonitis.

Via Pelicans: “Dejounte Murray has been upgraded to AVAILABLE for tonight’s game in Chicago.”

Murray has appeared in 23 games for New Orleans this season, posting averages of 16.7 points, 7.7 assists, and 6.5 rebounds. While his shooting numbers are down (39% from the field and 29% from three), Murray is coming off a game against the Boston Celtics where he made six of his nine three-point attempts.

New Orleans narrowly fell to Boston in what was one of its stronger showings of the season against the defending NBA champions.

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JOEY LINN

Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA and WNBA for On SI. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined On SI to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts and in the classroom earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Joey covers the NBA full-time, primarily serving as a Clippers beat writer.

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