{"id":474527,"date":"2026-02-17T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:10:15","slug":"jazzs-jaren-jackson-jr-has-surgery-for-growth-in-left-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474527\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz&#8217;s Jaren Jackson Jr. has surgery for growth in left knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 17, 2026, 03:44 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4277961\/jaren-jackson-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaren Jackson Jr<\/a>. underwent surgery on Tuesday to remove a growth in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz said Jackson will begin rehabilitation and be re-evaluated in four weeks to determine his recovery status. Dr. Travis Maak performed the procedure in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN reported last week that Jackson is expected to miss the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Utah acquired Jackson from Memphis in an eight-player trade on Feb. 3. A post-trade physical revealed the localized pigmented villonodular synovitis growth.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was acquired as a key building block with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066336\/lauri-markkanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauri Markkanen<\/a>, although his limited playing time after the trade became a controversial topic due to concerns about tanking the NBA. However, sources told ESPN he was on a minutes limit due to medical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was drafted by the Grizzlies with the No. 4 pick in the 2018 draft. He was a two-time All-Star in Memphis and the 2023 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, who played in three games for Utah, has averaged 19.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 blocks in 48 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 17, 2026, 03:44 PM ET SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; Utah Jazz forward Jaren Jackson Jr. underwent surgery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-474527","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\/474527","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=474527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}