Relative to his 2015-16 season, this season has been a healthy one for New Orleans Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis. Entering last night, he had appeared and started in 38 games and made his 39th start as well and, for the record, has only missed three games this season. However, he suffered a hip and thumb injury during last night’s game against the Indiana Pacers and had to leave the game from that point forward.
Anthony Davis left during the third quarter of the New Orleans Pelicans’ game in Indiana after suffering right hip and left thumb injuries from a hard fall underneath the basket.
X-rays came back negative, and Davis did not return to the Pelicans’ bench.
“Don’t know anything yet,” Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry told reporters in Indianapolis after the game. “We’ll just check with the doctors and see. I’m sure it’s going to be a bruise, and we’ll see to what extent it will be.”
Davis collided with the Pacers’ Myles Turner on a dunk attempt with 7:08 to play in the third quarter and landed hard on his tailbone. The 23-year-old immediately reached for his lower back and writhed in apparent pain before being tended to by Pelicans trainer Duane Brooks.
He ultimately stayed in the game to take two free throws, but Buddy Hield immediately took a foul in order to get Davis out of the game for forward Terrence Jones. Davis then went to the locker room.
Davis missed last Thursday’s win in Brooklyn and the fourth quarter of last Monday’s win in New York after hitting his left hip on a chair after a hard foul from the Knicks’ Kyle O’Quinn sent him into the stands.
The Pacers game marks the sixth time this season Davis has left during a game and the third time he has left and did not return. Davis has sat out three full games this season, including one for planned rest.
