Medical imaging has revealed that star guard CJ McCollum recently suffered a small collapsed right lung, the Pelicans announced in a press release. The team will assess him across the ensuing two days to evaluate his recovery and will issue an update after that 48-hour period.
The 6’3″ veteran had been enjoying a prolific start for the 4-2 Pelicans. Across his five games in 2023/24 so far, he had been averaging 21.7 PPG on .440/.380/.742 shooting, along with 5.7 APG, 4.8 RPG, 1.5 SPG and 0.8 BPG.
Injury issues sank New Orleans’ season last year. After initially emerging as one of the top clubs in the West, the team nosedived through the standings following major injuries to star forwards Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram.
Though both those players are currently healthy, McCollum joins a growing list of rotational guards and wings who are currently sidelined.
Point guard Jose Alvarado is still recovering from a right ankle sprain that he suffered right before the start of the season. Small forward Naji Marshall is set to be reassessed in two weeks as he works his way back from a knee issue. Wing Trey Murphy III will also be out for the foreseeable future as he continues to recuperate from surgery on a torn left meniscus.
Pelicans can’t catch a break
And McCollum cant catch a breath
So what you’re telling me is he’s a gametime decision?
Didn’t Eric Lindros almost die from the exact same thing in a bathtub how do you not keep him out for a minimum? Of 30 days?
What? Eric Lindros is alive. Collapsed lung not the same as concussion…get that looked at bud lol
A little more info on the ramifications of a collapsed lung would be cool.
“Small collapsed right lung” sounds a bit weird (are CJ’s lungs unusually small?).
It’s not the size it’s how you use them
That lung plays big.
I knew a guy who was 26 and had a collapsed lung a number of years ago. He missed 6 weeks of work and he wasn’t playing pro basketball. Hopefully they’ll be careful with CJ
The term collapsed lung just sounds painful and long term not day to day.
Ok so two things.
1. “Collapsed lung” doesn’t necessarily mean the entire lung is collapsed. Each individual section in the lung is also called lung. Like one strand of tissue and the entire organ have the same name. So like when people say “coughing up lung” they don’t mean the entire thing either. They just mean at least one cell… from your lung.
English is just a dumb language.
So anyway a ‘small collapsed lung’ refers to the size of the collapse, not the size of the lung.
2) A collapsed lung is often just caused by air that is outside the lung causing pressure. It usually heals on its own.
2nd time this’s happened. something more serious going on here.
Actually it is simpler than that. What CJ has is a small lung collapse. A “small collapsed lung” is broken English, probably arising from carelessly replacing “pneumothorax” with “collapsed lung”. Nothing dumb with the English language here, just a problem with the way it is used.
It’s called “spontaneous pneumothorax”. Happened to me 20 years ago while I was playing soccer. I was just running and all of a sudden I couldn’t catch my breath. I was in the hospital for almost a week.