{"id":234476,"date":"2025-10-18T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234476\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:59:07","slug":"grizzlies-pippen-jr-undergoes-surgery-will-miss-start-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234476\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies&#8217; Pippen Jr. undergoes surgery, will miss start of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pippen Jr., 24, will be re-evaluated in 12 weeks, according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian frontcourt players Zach Edey and Brandon Clarke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nba\/article\/report-canadas-brandon-clarke-out-six-weeks-with-knee-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are also both slated to miss time<\/a> at the start of the season for the Grizzlies with ankle and knee injuries, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Pippen Jr. averaged 9.9 points, 4.4 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.4 steals while playing a key role off the bench for the Grizzlies last season.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis will need to reach far down its depth chart while it waits for its roster to get healthy. <\/p>\n<p>Superstar point guard Ja Morant is also day-to-day with an ankle injury and may be unable to suit up for the Grizzlies&#8217; season opener on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pippen Jr., 24, will be re-evaluated in 12 weeks, according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania. Canadian frontcourt players Zach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-234476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}