NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Pelicans announced Tuesday that injury-plagued forward Zion Williamson has a grade 2 right hip adductor strain and will be sidelined indefinitely.

Williamson, who missed eight consecutive games earlier this season with a strained hamstring , did not play as a precaution in the second game of a back-to-back on Sunday night against the Los Angeles Lakers , but he was not listed on the injury report after that game and was expected to play Tuesday.

Williamson has missed 12 of the Pelicans’ 22 games this season.

“I don’t have any more information as far as when (the injury) happened,” Pelicans coach James Borrego said before Tuesday night’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. “I learned of it this morning, as well. We had it imaged, and I think we all heard

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