New Orleans Pelicans ☆

Availability

No game for this team in the published slate yet; the timeline below shows the latest reports with their dates.

• Oct 17 '26Roster

  Kobe Bufkin left the roster (not on the 2026-10-18 roster)

  roster snapshots
• Oct 17 '26Roster

  Jalon Moore left the roster (not on the 2026-10-18 roster)

  roster snapshots
• Oct 16 '26Lineup

  starting lineup change vs WAS (preseason): in Herbert Jones, Zion Williamson, Trey Murphy III; out Saddiq Bey, Bennedict Mathurin, Karlo Matkovic

  box score
• Oct 16 '26Availability

  Dejounte Murray Day-to-day uncertain

  Murray (toe) won't play in Friday's preseason finale against the Wizards, Jim Eichenhofer of the Pelicans' official site reports.

  ESPN
• Oct 16 '26Roster

  Christian Koloko new this season (last season: ATL)

  first seen in our roster data on this date
• Oct 16 '26Roster

  Caleb Houstan left the roster (not on the 2026-10-18 roster)

  roster snapshots
• Oct 14 '26Roster

  AJ Johnson new this season (last season: DAL)

  first seen in our roster data on this date
• Oct 14 '26Roster

  Bennedict Mathurin new this season (last season: LAC)

  first seen in our roster data on this date
• Oct 14 '26Roster

  Julian Reese new this season (last season: WAS)

  first seen in our roster data on this date
• Oct 14 '26Roster

  Trendon Watford new this season (last season: PHI)

  first seen in our roster data on this date

Built from rosters, box scores and attributed reports. The same news from several sources is one event. Uncertain statuses stay uncertain until a later report.

Open questions

• Dejounte Murray: day-to-day with no later update since Oct 16

Next games

• Wed, Oct 21 vs IND 8:00 PM ET
• Fri, Oct 23 @ UTA 9:30 PM ET
• Sat, Oct 24 @ DEN 9:00 PM ET
• Wed, Oct 28 vs DEN 8:00 PM ET
• Thu, Oct 29 vs SAC 8:00 PM ET