NBA · 2025-26

Karlo Matković

Height: 6-10
Weight: 231 lb
College: Mega Basket
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Draft: 2022 · Rd 2, Pick 52
Seasons: 2024–2026

Injury status

Reported Jun 25

Day-To-DayBack — Torso — Not SpecifiedEst. return Oct 1

The Pelicans announced Thursday that they exercised a third-year option on Matkovic (back).

Matkovic is set to compete with Yves Missi (hand) and Derik Queen for the top center spot in 2026-27. Last regular season, Matkovic averaged 5.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 0.9 blocks in 14.7 minutes per contest across 62 games while shooting 60.4 percent from the field.

Season averages

2025-26

65GP

2GS

14.7MPG

5.7PPG

3.7RPG

0.8APG

0.4SPG

0.9BPG

0.6TOV

60.2%FG%

41.5%3P%

72.1%FT%

-1.3+/-

Game log

86 games · 2025-26

Date	Opp	Result	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	FG	3P	FT	+/-
Apr 12	@MIN	L126-132	DNP — injury
Apr 10	@BOS	L118-144	DNP — injury
Apr 7	vsUTA	W156-137	DNP — injury
Apr 5	vsORL	L108-112	DNP — injury
Apr 3	@SAC	L113-117	DNP — injury
Apr 2	@POR	L106-118	DNP — injury
Mar 29	vsHOU	L102-134	17	2	3	0	0	1	1	1	1-4	0-3	0-0	-25
Mar 27	@TOR	L106-119	17	4	6	0	0	1	2	1	2-4	0-1	0-0	-9
Mar 26	@DET	L108-129	15	8	3	1	1	1	0	2	4-8	0-3	0-2	-9
Mar 24	@NYK	L116-121	23	12	3	1	0	0	0	1	5-6	2-2	0-0	+1
Mar 21	vsCLE	L106-111	12	6	1	0	2	1	0	2	3-4	0-1	0-0	-11
Mar 19	vsLAC	W105-99	23	3	5	0	1	1	1	3	0-6	0-4	3-4	+6
Mar 18	vsLAC	W124-109	25	9	8	0	0	1	1	1	4-8	1-3	0-0	+21
Mar 16	vsDAL	W129-111	20	13	10	1	1	0	0	2	5-7	2-2	1-1	+20
Mar 13	@HOU	L105-107	22	8	4	2	0	2	0	2	3-3	2-2	0-0	0
Mar 11	vsTOR	W122-111	13	4	3	0	1	0	0	1	1-1	0-0	2-2	-8
Mar 8	vsWAS	W138-118	4	5	2	0	1	0	0	3	1-2	1-1	2-2	-1
Mar 6	@PHX	L116-118	13	9	3	0	1	0	2	1	4-4	1-1	0-0	-1
Mar 5	@SAC	W133-123	25	9	9	2	0	3	1	2	4-9	1-3	0-0	+22
Mar 3	@LAL	L101-110	DNP
Mar 1	@LAC	L117-137	14	4	5	3	0	0	0	2	0-2	0-2	4-4	-7
Feb 28	@UTA	W115-105	25	8	6	5	1	2	1	4	3-4	0-1	2-2	-3
Feb 26	@UTA	W129-118	25	8	4	0	0	4	1	5	3-4	1-2	1-1	+4
Feb 24	vsGSW	W113-109	18	10	8	1	1	3	1	2	4-6	1-3	1-2	-5
Feb 21	vsPHI	W126-111	18	12	3	0	0	2	1	4	3-3	2-2	4-4	0
Feb 20	vsMIL	L118-139	25	9	7	2	0	2	2	2	4-4	1-1	0-0	-5
Feb 11	vsMIA	L111-123	13	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1-1	1-1	0-0	+10
Feb 9	vsSAC	W120-94	19	12	9	1	0	0	0	0	4-6	2-3	2-2	+19
Feb 6	@MIN	W119-115	7	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	-11
Feb 4	@MIL	L137-141	15	7	3	1	0	0	0	1	3-7	1-3	0-0	-3
Feb 2	@CHA	L95-102	14	2	1	2	1	1	0	1	1-5	0-3	0-0	+1
Jan 31	@PHI	L114-124	16	2	5	1	2	2	2	1	1-1	0-0	0-0	+8
Jan 30	vsMEM	W114-106	14	5	4	1	2	1	0	2	2-4	1-3	0-0	+1
Jan 27	@OKC	L95-104	10	6	2	0	1	1	0	0	2-4	2-2	0-0	-14
Jan 25	@SAS	W104-95	12	2	1	0	0	0	1	4	1-1	0-0	0-0	-14
Jan 23	@MEM	W133-127	15	5	6	1	1	0	0	3	2-4	1-3	0-0	-6
Jan 21	vsDET	L104-112	14	5	2	0	0	1	0	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	+3
Jan 18	@HOU	L110-119	18	5	3	0	0	0	0	1	2-2	1-1	0-0	+8
Jan 16	@IND	L119-127	15	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	1-4	1-2	0-0	-11
Jan 14	vsBKN	W116-113	18	8	3	1	0	2	1	2	3-5	1-2	1-1	+7
Jan 13	vsDEN	L116-122	15	4	5	1	1	1	0	0	2-3	0-0	0-0	-2
Jan 11	@ORL	L118-128	18	11	0	1	0	2	0	1	4-4	1-1	2-2	+2
Jan 9	@WAS	W128-107	5	2	3	0	0	1	0	1	1-2	0-1	0-0	-4
Jan 7	@ATLGS	L100-117	13	2	4	1	1	1	1	1	1-3	0-1	0-0	-18
Jan 6	vsLAL	L103-111	10	6	2	0	0	0	0	2	2-3	0-1	2-2	-1
Jan 4	@MIAGS	L106-125	24	4	6	1	0	2	2	1	2-5	0-3	0-0	-7
Jan 2	vsPOR	L109-122	20	16	2	0	2	2	2	4	7-8	2-3	0-0	-11
Dec 31	@CHI	L118-134	DNP
Dec 29	vsNYK	L125-130	DNP
Dec 27	vsPHX	L114-123	DNP
Dec 26	vsPHX	L108-115	9	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	1-2	1-1	0-0	+4
Dec 23	@CLE	L118-141	10	2	5	0	0	0	1	1	1-6	0-0	0-0	-11
Dec 22	vsDAL	W119-113	14	5	6	1	0	1	1	3	2-4	1-3	0-2	-7
Dec 20	vsIND	W128-109	20	6	9	2	1	1	1	4	3-5	0-1	0-0	-5
Dec 18	vsHOU	W133-128	11	3	2	1	0	1	1	2	1-1	1-1	0-0	-5
Dec 14	@CHI	W114-104	12	4	4	0	0	1	0	0	2-5	0-2	0-0	+9
Dec 11	vsPOR	W143-120	1	2	2	1	0	2	0	0	1-2	0-0	0-0	+2
Dec 8	vsSAS	L132-135	7	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	2-2	0-0	0-0	-15
Dec 6	@BKN	L101-119	11	3	2	0	0	1	1	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	-2
Dec 4	vsMIN	L116-125	19	8	6	1	0	1	1	3	4-5	0-0	0-0	-5
Dec 2	vsMIN	L142-149	DNP — injury
Nov 30	@LAL	L121-133	DNP — injury
Nov 29	@GSW	L96-104	DNP — injury
Nov 26	vsMEM	L128-133	DNP — injury
Nov 24	vsCHI	W143-130	DNP — injury
Nov 22	vsATL	L98-115	DNP — injury
Nov 21	@DAL	L115-118	DNP — injury
Nov 19	vsDEN	L118-125	DNP — injury
Nov 17	vsOKC	L109-126	22	10	6	2	0	1	1	3	4-5	2-3	0-0	+4
Nov 16	vsGSW	L106-124	20	4	2	3	2	0	1	1	2-3	0-1	0-0	-3
Nov 14	vsLAL	L104-118	13	4	3	0	0	1	1	2	2-2	0-0	0-0	+11
Nov 12	vsPOR	L117-125	14	5	3	1	0	1	0	1	2-4	1-2	0-0	-3
Nov 10	@PHX	L98-121	17	11	2	2	0	1	0	2	4-5	1-2	2-2	-11
Nov 8	@SAS	L119-126	9	4	5	0	0	0	1	0	2-3	0-0	0-0	-7
Nov 5	@DAL	W101-99	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	+1
Nov 4	vsCHA	W116-112	15	13	6	2	0	1	1	2	6-7	0-0	1-4	+13
Nov 2	@OKC	L106-137	7	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	2-2	0-0	0-2	+1
Oct 31	@LAC	L124-126	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0-1	0-0	0-0	-5
Oct 29	@DEN	L88-122	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1-2	0-0	0-0	+3
Oct 27	vsBOS	L90-122	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	-9
Oct 24	vsSAS	L116-120	DNP — injury
Oct 22	@MEM	L122-128	DNP — injury
Oct 16	@ORL	L125-132	DNP — coach's decision
Oct 14	vsHOU	L128-130	9	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	1-2	1-1	0-0	-1
Oct 4	vsSEM	W127-92	16	9	4	2	1	1	2	3	4-6	0-1	1-2	+9
Oct 3	vsMEL	W107-97	16	6	4	1	1	1	0	2	3-6	0-2	0-0	+3