NEW ORLEANS — Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray suffered a season-ending torn Achilles tendon during Friday night’s 118-116 loss to the Boston Celtics, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Murray drove into the lane and took a shot, then went to chase his miss. But he fell to the court and grabbed at the area near his right foot. When he got up, he hobbled toward the nearby Pelicans bench.
He was quickly ruled out with what the team said was an injury to his lower right leg.
“Extremely difficult, when you see a guy that means so much to our team and puts the work in go down like that,” Pelicans coach Willie Green said after the game.
The injury-riddled Pelicans were already playing without Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram and Herb Jones as they fell to 12-27 on the season. Ingram, Williamson and Murray did not share the floor once this season.
“Those are the challenges that we’ve been going through pretty much all season,” Green said.
Murray entered the night averaging 17.9 points per game to go with 7.6 assists and 2.1 steals, both team highs. He had four straight games with 20 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, tied for the longest streak of his career and the longest streak by a Pelicans player since Ingram in 2022.
Information from ESPN Research amd The Associated Press was used in this report.