Jrue Holiday's troublesome stress fracture in his right leg has been a sore spot for the New Orleans Pelicans for quite some time. Thus far it has resulted in 91 missed games over the course of two seasons out of a total of 168 opportunities. It first manifested in January 2014 and Holiday was expected to miss a couple weeks. Ultimately surgery was required, performed on February 28, 2014 and putting Holiday out for the remainder of the season.
This season began with high hopes and Holiday started the first 37 games without incident.