Jrue Holiday is day-to-day with a left knee sprain.

Holiday, who will miss Saturday night's game against the Rockets, suffered the injury during the third quarter of a loss against the Mavs.

An MRI on Holiday's knee returned clean. 

The New Orleans Pelicans have exercised fourth-year options on guards Lonzo Ball and Josh Hart.

Ball, 6-6, 190, who was selected second overall by the Lakers in the 2017 NBA Draft out of UCLA, has appeared in 100 career regular season games, posting averages of 10.0 points, 6.4 assists, 6.2 rebounds and 1.6 steals in 32.3 minutes.

Hart, 6-5, 215, who was selected out of Villanova with the 30th pick in the 2017 NBA by Utah, has appeared in 131 career regular season games, posting averages of 7.9 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 24.5 minutes.

The Toronto Raptors' win over the New Orleans Pelicans averaged a 1.4 rating and 2.25 million viewers, which makes it the smallest Opening Night audience (in the U.S.) since 2007 (Blazers-Spurs: 1.94M; Rockets-Lakers: 2.05M).

The rating excludes the Canadian audience.

The Los Angeles Clippers' win over the Los Angeles Lakers, however, averaged a 2.2 rating and 3.58 million viewers on TNT, which ranks third among Opening Night games since 2013. The 2017 openers — Celtics-Cavaliers (3.3, 5.60M) and Rockets-Warriors (2.6, 4.25M) — hold the top spots.

The NBA also competed against the World Series on their opening night for the first time since 2016.

David Griffin hopes to incorporate his experience dealing with a high profile situation as general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the tenure of LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love to his new job with the New Orleans Pelicans and the budding career of Zion Williamson.

“We are on national TV 30 times this year in large measure because of the Zion phenomenon,” Griffin said. “Having been a part of a team with a phenomenon with LeBron, Kyrie [Irving] and Kevin [Love], it’s certainly been a learning experience that I hope we can utilize. The mistakes we made then, I hope we don’t make now. We didn’t ignore the noise well as a team. There was so much scrutiny that you didn’t know was going to come or proactively prepare for.

“But now we can be in front of a lot of things, although you wouldn’t know it by the way I handled the injury situation. But you control actively being in front of something.”

Zion Williamson underwent surgery on Monday to repair a torn lateral meniscus and will miss six to eight weeks.

The New Orleans Pelicans don't believe Williamson's weight is a contributing cause to the injury. Williamson weighs approximately 285 pounds.

“Sources told me that the New Orleans Pelicans do not believe that it’s a weight issue for Zion Williamson,” reports Shams Charania. "They're not blaming his weight on the injury. There is 100 percent confidence within the Pelicans that this is an isolated situation."

Zion Williamson has undergone surgery for a torn lateral meniscus in his right knee and will miss six to eight weeks. The routine debridement was performed by Dr. Jason Folk with assistance from Team Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Misty Suri.

The New Orleans Pelicans were encouraged that the injury was not worse for Williamson.

Williamson was the first overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.

The New Orleans Pelicans waived Jalen Adams, Javon Bess, Kavell Bigby-Williams.

The Pelicans roster now stands at 17 players heading into opening night of the season.

Zion Williamson is expected to miss a "period of weeks to start (the) regular season", sources tell Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

Williamson is battling a right knee injury.

A severe injury has been ruled out for Williamson at this time.

The New Orleans Pelicans are treating the injury with an abundance of caution. 

Zion Williamson is listed as out with right knee soreness for the New Orleans Pelicans' final preseason game against the Knicks.

Williamson did not travel with the team to New York and remained in New Orleans to undergo further testing and evaluation at Ochsner Sports Medicine.

The Los Angeles Clippers and New Orleans Pelicans have the biggest average price change for tickets on the secondary market from the 18-19 season to the 19-20 season, according to data from TicketCity.

The Clippers acquired Kawhi Leonard and Paul George in the offseason, while the Pelicans traded away Anthony Davis but won the lottery to draft Zion Williamson. The Clippers have a 114 percent increase in secondary ticket price increase.

The Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat and Miami Heat round out the top-5 in average price change increase.

The Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, Atlanta Hawks and Golden State Warriors rank 30th through 26th, respectively, in average price change decrease. The presence of the Warriors on this side of the ledger is surprising considering they are moving into Chase Center.