{"id":439614,"date":"2026-01-28T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439614\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:06:08","slug":"report-rockets-centre-steven-adams-undergoes-season-ending-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439614\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rockets centre Steven Adams undergoes season-ending surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/steven-adams\/a208e22a-6b63-45f9-b7c6-bf913a68f3df\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"a208e22a-6b63-45f9-b7c6-bf913a68f3df\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Steven Adams<\/a> has undergone surgery on his left ankle which ends his season, ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2016609074888994851?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Adams has not played since Jan. 18 after sustaining a severe ankle sprain against the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Adams played 32 games for Houston this season, including 11 starts. He averaged 5.8 points, 8.6 rebounds and 0.6 blocks in 22.8 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>Adams was traded to the Rockets in 2024 from Memphis. He missed the entire 2023-24 Grizzlies campaign after PCL surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-11 New Zealander spent the first seven years of his NBA career with the Oklahoma City Thunder, before being traded to New Orleans in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets (28-16) sit fourth in the Western Conference. They host their in-state-rival San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre Steven Adams has undergone surgery on his left ankle which ends his season, ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-439614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439614","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=439614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}