Report: Alvarado to miss six weeks with hamstring injury

Another New Orleans Pelicans key contributor will miss significant time due to injury.

This time, Jose Alvarado will be sidelined six weeks with a hamstring injury, ESPN’s Shams Charania is reporting.

Another injury blow to New Orleans: Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado is expected to miss six weeks due to a hamstring injury, sources told ESPN.

New Orleans is now without Alvarado, Zion Williamson, Herb Jones, Dejounte Murray, CJ McCollum and Jordan Hawkins. pic.twitter.com/8BLBGBTM3W

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 12, 2024

Alvarado joins an almost impossibly long list of injured Pelicans. Zion Williamson was announced out indefinitely over the weekend with a hamstring injury. Dejounte Murray fractured his hand in the season opener. Herb Jones, CJ McCollum and Jordan Hawkins are all out due to injury as well.

With much of the starting lineup unavailable, Alvarado had picked up the slack. On the season, he’s averaging 10 points and four assists in 25 minutes per game. He had seen his minutes and production spike in the last week, with two 20-plus point games.

New Orleans (3-8) has lost five straight games and eight of their last nine. Only the Utah Jazz have a worse record among Western Conference teams. The Pelicans return to the floor Wednesday at Oklahoma City.