Comments Derick Hingle/Associated Press After missing three games with bilateral knee tendinitis, New Orleans Pelicans point guard Lonzo Ball will start in the team's Tuesday night game against the Utah Jazz. The Pelicans announced Ball would return to the lineup less than two hours before they took the court in Utah. He had been listed as probable on the game-day injury report earlier. Nickeil Alexander-Walker filled in for Ball in the starting lineup while he was sidelined. The Pelicans snapped a five-game skid when they defeated the Sacramento Kings 128-123 on Sunday. Although they lost the first two games of Ball's absence, they got to tinker around with their offense, especially as Zion Williamson missed one game while he worked his way back through the league's health and safety protocols following an inconclusive test for COVID-19.