{"id":227935,"date":"2025-10-20T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227935\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:47:06","slug":"grizzlies-ty-jerome-to-miss-start-of-season-with-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227935\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies&#8217; Ty Jerome to miss start of season with calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off-season signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/ty-jerome\/03cf6eb6-688a-49b1-a4cc-f10c39c21725\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"03cf6eb6-688a-49b1-a4cc-f10c39c21725\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ty Jerome<\/a> has been diagnosed with a high-grade right calf strain and will be re-evaluated in four weeks, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GrizzliesPR\/status\/1980398745503297902\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian frontcourt players Zach Edey and Brandon Clarke\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nba\/article\/report-canadas-brandon-clarke-out-six-weeks-with-knee-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are also both slated to miss time<\/a> at the start of the season for Memphis with ankle and knee injuries, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies depth guard Scotty Pippen Jr. will also be re-evaluated in 12 weeks after undergoing a procedure for a left big toe injury. <\/p>\n<p>Coming off a breakout season, Jerome agreed to a three-year, $28 million deal with the\u00a0Grizzlies, including a third-year player option, on June 30. <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old averaged 12.5 points on 51.6 per cent shooting from the floor and 43.9 per cent from three, all career highs.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome provided offensive punch in his 19.9 minutes per game off the bench for the Eastern Conference No. 1 seed Cleveland Cavaliers. He was a finalist for the Sixth Man of the Year Award, losing to Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-five combo guard was also among the NBA&#8217;s most proficient pick-and-roll operators and stands to run the Grizzlies&#8217; second-unit offence behind star guard Ja Morant when he returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off-season signing Ty Jerome has been diagnosed with a high-grade right calf strain and will be re-evaluated in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-227935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}