The Pelicans now expect to be without starters CJ McCollum and Herb Jones for multiple weeks. McCollum has been diagnosed with a right adductor strain that is expected to sideline him two to three weeks.

In addition to already being without Dejounte Murray, who fractured his left hand in New Orleans' first game of the season, which is expected to keep him sidelined for 4-6 weeks, as well as Trey Murphy,

The New Orleans Pelicans announced on Friday that Herb Jones and CJ McCollum will both miss extended periods of time with shoulder and adductor injuries, respectively. Jones sustained a right shoulder strain and a small low-grade partial thickness tear in his rotator cuff.