James Borrego clarifies the injury timeline for Trey Murphy III
The New Orleans Pelicans have been on the fight bus all year, leading many to speculate that the team would make significant moves at the recent NBA trade deadline. instead, The Pelicans mostly kept their team intactincluding the wing Trey Murphy IIIwhich had numerous reported interested teams across the league.
Murphy missed last two games for the Pelicans with a shoulder injury, but recently the team won optimistic status update on his status advances.
“James Borrego said Trey Murphy didn’t make it through practice today, but hopes remain that Murphy’s absence won’t be long,” reported Will Guillory of the Athletics on X, formerly Twitter.
Murphy is one of the most talented players on the Pelicans’ roster, boasting the combination of three-point shooting, defense and versatility that every NBA team is looking for these days.
Injuries have been a major concern for the wing in recent seasons, as well as for several players on New Orleans’ roster, but with the Pelicans essentially out of the picture for Western Conference postseason contention, they’re right to be as cautious with him as necessary.
Unfortunately for the Pelicans, the team does not have its pick in this summer’s NBA draft, having traded that selection to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for the draft rights to Derrick Quinn. While Quinn has been solid so far in his rookie season, Pelicans fans still aren’t thrilled that they won’t have the opportunity to select one of the top talents at the top of what is expected to be a loaded 2026 draft class.
By the end of the year, the Pelicans will likely pour their energies into developing the young players on their roster and try to build some sort of viable system moving forward.
They will next take the floor Tuesday night at home against the Golden State Warriors.
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