{"id":444855,"date":"2026-01-29T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444855\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:37:08","slug":"ankle-surgery-brings-steven-adams-nba-season-to-an-early-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444855\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankle surgery brings Steven Adams&#8217; NBA season to an early end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealander Steven Adams is out for the rest of the NBA season after having surgery on his left ankle.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets centre posted a message on his Instagram account this morning revealing the news, saying: &#8220;All went well. Grateful for all your thoughts and prayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adams injured his ankle in a January 18 win over New Orleans, landing awkwardly after contesting a Zion Williamson shot attempt. <\/p>\n<p>He was diagnosed last week with a Grade 3 sprain and was ruled out indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody else has to step up in his absence,&#8221; Rockets coach Ime Udoka said when asked about Adams&#8217; offensive rebound quality. &#8220;We can&#8217;t really do it the way he does it &#8211; commanding two or three guys with his strength and holding guys off [but] everybody else can improve in that area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has had run of bad luck with injury.<\/p>\n<p>He missed part of the 2022\/23 season and all of \u201923\/24 due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared to be back in form this season, having logged 22.8 minutes per game in his 32 outings (11 starts) this season.<\/p>\n<p>In April last year he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/04\/29\/steven-adams-narrowly-pipped-for-nbas-teammate-of-the-year-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">narrowly beaten by Stephen Curry<\/a> for the NBA&#8217;s Teammate of the Year Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealander Steven Adams is out for the rest of the NBA season after having surgery on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,590,85],"class_list":["post-444855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444855","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=444855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}