{"id":494835,"date":"2026-02-23T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494835\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:54:07","slug":"report-jazz-centre-jusuf-nurkic-to-have-season-ending-nose-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494835\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jazz centre Jusuf Nurkic to have season-ending nose surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/utah-jazz\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"utah-jazz\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Utah Jazz<\/a> are reportedly losing another member of their frontcourt.<\/p>\n<p>Nurki\u0107, 31, joins Jaren Jackson Jr. and Walker Kessler as Utah big men to have their season end early due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran of 12 NBA seasons, Nurki\u0107 was traded to the Jazz in the off-season and played in 41 games. The six-foot-11 centre averaged 10.9 points, 10.4 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.3 steals on the year while shooting 50.3 per cent from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz are Nurki\u0107&#8217;s fifth NBA team. He previously spent time with Portland, Denver, Phoenix and Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Utah is in a clear battle for draft-lottery positioning for the rest of the season. It currently sits 13th in the Western Conference with an 18-39 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz are reportedly losing another member of their frontcourt. Nurki\u0107, 31, joins Jaren Jackson Jr. and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-494835","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\/494835","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=494835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}