{"id":543328,"date":"2026-03-17T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543328\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:33:09","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-scotty-pippen-jr-santi-aldama-to-miss-remainder-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543328\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies\u2019 Scotty Pippen Jr., Santi Aldama to miss remainder of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies guard Scotty Pippen Jr. and forward Santi Aldama will miss the rest of the season after each had surgery on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pippen had an operation on his right big toe and Aldama had a procedure and injection to address discomfort in his right knee. The team said both procedures were successful and the players will be ready for next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Grizzlies (23-44) have lost eight straight games and entered Tuesday night nine games back in the race for the final play-in berth in the Western Conference. Star Ja Morant has played in only 20 games this season, missing the last 25 with a left elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pippen had a similar procedure in October and didn\u2019t make his season debut until last month. In 10 games, he averaged 11.4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Aldama was averaging 14 points and 6.7 rebounds this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies guard Scotty Pippen Jr. and forward Santi Aldama will miss the rest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-543328","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\/543328","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=543328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}