New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday will not play in his team's game against the Houston Rockets on Saturday night due to a left knee sprain, according to Andrew Lopez of ESPN.com.
The injury occurred during the Pelicans' loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Friday evening.
Through two games, Holiday is averaging 10.5 points, seven assists, four rebounds, one steal and one block over 37 minutes per game while shooting 30.8 percent from the floor, 11.1 percent from three-point range and 66.7 percent from the free-throw line.
Obviously, it has been an ugly start for Holiday, and this injury has only further marred things.
That being said, so long as Holiday is able to come back healthy, New Orleans knows what it can expect from him.
Widely considered one of the best two-way guards in basketball, Holiday is coming off of a 2018-19 campaign in which he played in 67 games and registered 21.2 points, 7.7 assists, five boards and 1.6 steals across 35.9 minutes a night while making 47.2 percent of his field-goal attempts, 32.5 percent of his long-distance tries and 76.8 percent of his foul shots.
The 29-year-old, who played his collegiate basketball at UCLA, was originally selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round (17th pick overall) of the 2009 NBA Draft.
He spent the first four years of his career with the 76ers, making one All-Star team. He was traded to the Pelicans in July 2013.
Holiday owns lifetime averages of 15.5 points, 6.4 assists, 3.8 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game.
New Orleans' season has not gotten off to the start it hoped, as they've lost Zion Williamson to knee surgery and dropped its first two games.
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