Brandon Ingram will miss Pelicans’ subsequent 2 video games | Pelicans

Brandon Ingram won’t be again on the ground for the New Orleans Pelicans this week.

On Wednesday, Pelicans coach Willie Inexperienced stated Ingram will sit out the staff’s upcoming video games towards the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday and the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder on Friday.

Which means Ingram will miss a minimum of one month’s value of video games with what the staff has stated is a bruised massive toe on his left foot.

“He’s getting higher,” Inexperienced stated. “It’s simply been a slower course of than all of us anticipated. However he’s getting higher.”

Ingram suffered the damage in a Nov. 25 street loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. Ingram by accident kicked the again of Dillon Brooks’ foot as he dribbled the ball up the ground. Ingram exited the sport shortly earlier than halftime and by no means returned.

The Pelicans stated Ingram left the sport with a toe sprain. However after medical imaging revealed no structural harm to his left foot, the staff started describing his damage as a toe contusion.

Ingram has sat out the Pelicans’ final 11 video games. The staff received seven straight with out him however has gone winless in its final 4.

Ingram missed 27 video games final season. He already has missed 15 video games this season. 

The Pelicans (18-12) are in third place within the jumbled Western Convention. Solely three video games separate the West’s first-place staff (the Denver Nuggets) and its eighth-place staff (the Utah Jazz). 

“We’ve got been wholesome … for eight or 9 video games,” Inexperienced stated. “If you happen to advised our staff in the beginning of the season that we might be a recreation out of first place after 30 video games and solely being wholesome for 9 video games, would you are taking it? Everyone stated sure.”