{"id":263925,"date":"2025-11-05T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:00:08","slug":"utah-jazz-centre-walker-kessler-shoulder-to-miss-remainder-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263925\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz centre Walker Kessler (shoulder) to miss remainder of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Walker Kessler\u2019s season is already over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Amazon\u2019s Chris Haynes reports the Utah Jazz big man will undergo surgery on his left shoulder and miss the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kessler, 24, had been dealing with shoulder bursitis during the preseason. He appeared in the team\u2019s first five games of the season, last playing in a 118-96 loss to the Phoenix Suns on Friday. After the game, Kessler returned to Salt Lake City instead of flying with the team for a game with the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Atlanta, Kessler was in his fourth season out of Auburn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 201 career games, the 2022 22nd overall pick has averaged 9.5 points on .681 shooting, 10.8 boards and 1.8 blocks over 25.3 minutes a night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Jazz (3-4) return to action on Wednesday night against the Detroit Pistons (5-2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker Kessler\u2019s season is already over. Amazon\u2019s Chris Haynes reports the Utah Jazz big man will undergo surgery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[712,49,48,459,82,121950,121951],"class_list":["post-263925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-26","tag-walker-kessler-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1243728"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263925","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=263925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}