Pelicans' Holiday out for season with eye injury, Anderson has sports hernia

Alvin Gentry's voodoo doctor is nowhere to be found.

Another New Orleans Pelicans' player has bitten the dust, as point guard Jrue Holiday was ruled out for the remainder of the season Tuesday, the team announced. Holiday suffered an orbital wall fracture in the final minute of Monday's win over the New York Knicks.

Holiday had been a rare bright spot in a lost season for the injury-decimated Pelicans, who have already had to shut down Anthony Davis, Tyreke Evans, Eric Gordon, Quincy Pondexter, and Bryce Dejean-Jones.

Holiday began the season on a minutes - and back-to-back games - limit, as he worked his way back from a stress fracture in his leg. But once he resumed his normal workload in the new year, he played some of the best ball of his career.

In 39 games after the calendar flipped to 2016, Holiday averaged 19.5 points, 3.6 rebounds, 7.1 assists, and 1.6 steals, while making the point guard position the biggest area of strength for the Pelicans' otherwise porous defense. The team was dramatically worse at both ends without him, and performed 8.3 points per 100 possessions better overall with him on the floor.

In case his season-ending injury wasn't dire enough news for New Orleans, power forward Ryan Anderson has also been diagnosed with a sports hernia, suggesting he too may be shut down for the final nine games of the 2015-16 campaign.

Anderson is the team's second-leading scorer at 17 points per game, its third-leading rebounder (six per game), and its leader in 3-point makes (131). He's slated to be an unrestricted free agent on July 1.

Finally, the Pelicans' lone bastion of durability, swingman Alonzo Gee, will also miss the remainder of the season after rupturing his quad during Monday's game. Gee was the only New Orleans player who hadn't missed a game this year. He averaged 4.5 points and 3.4 rebounds while shooting 51.8 percent from the field in 73 contests.