{"id":481455,"date":"2026-02-17T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481455\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:47:09","slug":"jazzs-jaren-jackson-jr-undergoes-surgery-to-remove-growth-in-left-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481455\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz&#8217;s Jaren Jackson Jr. undergoes surgery to remove growth in left knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2054211\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2054211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jackson-jr-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2054211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaren Jackson Jr. was acquired by Utah in a trade with Memphis before the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Utah Jazz forward Jaren Jackson Jr. underwent surgery on Tuesday to remove a growth in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz said Jackson will begin rehabilitation and be re-evaluated in four weeks to determine his recovery status. Dr. Travis Maak performed the procedure in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jaren Jackson Jr. underwent successful surgery to remove a localized pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) growth in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Details \ud83d\udcf0\ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TakeNote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TakeNote<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8HhBKAkH9K\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/8HhBKAkH9K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utahjazz\/status\/2023846713753244032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Utah acquired Jackson\u00a0from Memphis in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/jaren-jackson-jr-trade-jazz-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-player trade<\/a> on Feb. 3. A\u00a0post-trade physical\u00a0revealed the localized pigmented villonodular synovitis growth.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was acquired\u00a0as a key building block\u00a0with Lauri Markkanen.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was drafted by the Grizzlies with the No. 4 pick in the 2018 draft. He was a two-time All-Star in Memphis and the 2023 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, who played in three games for Utah, has averaged 19.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 blocks in 48 games this season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaren Jackson Jr. was acquired by Utah in a trade with Memphis before the trade deadline. SALT LAKE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,194643,459,82],"class_list":["post-481455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jaren-jackson-jr-surgery-knee","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481455","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=481455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}