{"id":388720,"date":"2026-01-05T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388720\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:08:13","slug":"cedric-coward-injury-update-grizzlies-rookie-doubtful-to-return-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388720\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Coward injury update: Grizzlies rookie doubtful to return vs Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/sports\/grizzlies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Memphis Grizzlies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> rookie Cedric Coward went to the locker room on Jan. 4 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> with an apparent ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Coward&#8217;s injury appeared to happen after his foot came down on a Lakers player. He was visibly hobbled, limping off the floor and going to the locker room with 2:59 left in the quarter at crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He is doubtful to return with a left ankle injury, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Coward was putting together a strong performance before leaving the game. He had a team-high 16 points and nine rebounds in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies acquired Coward in the 2025 NBA Draft with the No. 11 overall pick. He has been one of the NBA&#8217;s top rookies, averaging 13.7 points and 6.5 rebounds in 33 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Damichael Cole is the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Memphis Grizzlies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> beat writer for The Commercial Appeal. Contact Damichael at damichael.cole@commercialappeal.com. Follow Damichael on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DamichaelC.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/grizzlies\/2026\/01\/04\/cedric-coward-injury-update-memphis-grizzlies-lakers\/88025192007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cedric Coward injury update: Memphis Grizzlies rookie hurt vs Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cedric Coward injury update: Memphis Grizzlies rookie hurt vs Lakers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies rookie Cedric Coward went to the locker room on Jan. 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[36413,114222,1055,7741,355,99],"class_list":["post-388720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ankle-injury","tag-cedric-coward","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388720","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=388720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}