Late on Tuesday afternoon, just hours before the New Orleans Pelicans recorded their first win of the season, 116-112 over the Charlotte Hornets thanks to a fourth-quarter comeback, the team announced that star forward Zion Williamson would be out for at least a week with a hamstring strain .

Losing a player of Williamson's caliber is never a good thing, particularly after an 0-6 start, but the silver lining was that it forced coach Willie Green to play rookie big man Derik Queen , who had strangely fallen out of the rotation. Entering Tuesday, Queen had seen his playing time decrease in each of the Pelicans' four previous games, and he only saw the floor for six minutes and 51 seconds of garbage time action against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday

Queen, the No. 13 pick

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