{"id":444048,"date":"2026-01-29T00:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:42:14","slug":"basketball-nba-season-over-for-injured-steven-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444048\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: NBA season over for injured Steven Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Steven<\/p>\n

\nSteven Adams posts from hospital.
\nPhoto: Steven Adams \/ Instagram\n<\/p>\n

New Zealand basketballer Steven Adams will sit out the rest of the NBA season after the Houston Rockets centre had ankle surgery.<\/p>\n

Adams injured his left ankle<\/a> late in the game against the New Orleans Pelicans on 19 January while attempting to block a layup. He had to be helped from the court by medical staff as he could not stand unassisted.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the game, Rockets head coach Ime Udoka gave a brief update on Adams’ condition.<\/p>\n

“Nothing broken, not a high ankle sprain, not sure about anything as far as time wise but quite a bit of swelling and pain and obviously couldn’t put much weight on it,” Udoka said.<\/p>\n

However, Adams has reportedly since had surgery and will not take the court again this season.<\/p>\n

\"Steven<\/p>\n

\nSteven Adams is out injured for remainder of NBA season
\nPhoto: AFP\n<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old posted on social media: “All went well. Grateful for all your thoughts and prayers.”<\/p>\n

Adams has had a tough run of injuries – he missed a few games earlier this season with a right ankle injury and missed the entire 2023-24 season with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

\"Steven<\/p>\n

\nSteven Adams in hospital.
\nPhoto: Steven Adams \/ Instagram\n<\/p>\n

The Rockets are currently fourth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Adams posts from hospital. Photo: Steven Adams \/ Instagram New Zealand basketballer Steven Adams will sit out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,590,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,85],"class_list":["post-444048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}