History seems to be repeating itself for the Pelicans starting point guard Jrue Holiday: he's now out for the next two-to-four weeks with a stress reaction in his lower right leg.
The injury is just below the area where Holiday developed a season-ending stress fracture in his tibia last year that required surgery, but Holiday doesn't think the two injuries are necessarily related.
"I don't remember how exactly it happened," Holidays said. "I knew I hurt it when I started limping, and it has gradually gone on. We've been trying to get the swelling down."
Holiday believes he injured his lower leg in Boston at smepoint during the game against the Celtics. Trainers tried applying heat to the swollen area, but that just made the inflammation worse.
The Pelicans played Boston on January 12, Holiday's last game in action. Ironically, The UCLA product went out January 8 last year with his previous stress fracture.
A stress reaction is the precursor to a stress fracture, so the Pelicans are hopeful that they caught this early enough to prevent it from developing into a full-fledged stress fracture.
After the Boston matchup, Holiday sat out of the rest of the Pelicans' recent road trip. Despite treatment, Holiday's ankle wasn't improving, so doctors performed more tests Tuesday morning, once the team landed back in New Orleans.
"It just never got better to where we could put him back on the floor," coach Monty Williams said. "So we met with the doctors. They said it was more serious, so he's going to be out for at least 2 weeks, maybe more."
Doctors will reâevaluate Holiday weekly. He'll sit out of all basketball activities until his leg improves.
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