Breaking: Zion Williamson To Miss Extended Time for Pelicans... Again

Stop us if you've heard this one before: The New Orleans Pelicans have lost Zion Williamson for an extended period due to an injury.

New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson will miss extended time with a right adductor injury, sources tell ESPN. He will be re-evaluated in three weeks. pic.twitter.com/NZtuinR4Qq
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 2, 2025

This time it's a right adductor issue for the oft-injured forward, and he'll be re-evaluated in three weeks to decide where they go from there.

Williamson has spent most of his career on the injury report, and has missed far more games than he's played over his six years in the league.

I’ve never seen a player go from
Not being on the injury report to being questionable as much as Zion Williamson
— Justin (@ProPelsTalk) December 2, 2025

Williamson has missed 268 regular-season games, while playing just 224. This means he has been available for just 45% of his team's 492 games since coming into the NBA. But in those 224 games when he's been on the court, it's been mostly dynamic: 24.6 points per game, 6.6 rebounds and 4.3 assists.

He missed the entire 2021-22 season due to a surgically repaired right foot and played just 29 games the next year. A left hamstring injury ended his 2024-25 season after just 30 games. He'd already missed 11 of New Orleans' 21 games in the current campaign, and now his return to action is unknown, but almost certainly won't be untiil the new year at least.

The Pelicans are dead last in the NBA with a 3-18 record.