DETROIT \u2014 Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler will undergo season-ending left shoulder surgery on a torn labrum, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n
Kessler was initially ruled out of Sunday’s game in Charlotte with bursitis in his left shoulder \u2014 the same injury he missed time with during the preseason \u2014 but flew back to Salt Lake City for further evaluation.<\/p>\n
That evaluation came with some bad news.<\/p>\n
The fourth-year center looked primed for another leap in the first week of the season, averaging 14.4 points and 10.8 rebounds in Utah’s first five games, and anchoring what had been a surprisingly competitive defense.<\/p>\n
Now, he’ll enter restricted free agency next summer after missing nearly a full season.<\/p>\n
This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler will undergo season-ending left shoulder surgery on a torn labrum, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1302,3811,97,3812,134,3729,355,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-273608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-health","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273608","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=273608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}