{"id":307812,"date":"2025-09-27T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/307812\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:58:09","slug":"georges-niang-goes-down-with-injury-but-for-how-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/307812\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges Niang goes down with injury, but for how long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Utah Jazz announced that Georges Niang will be out with a stress fracture in his left foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Niang suffered a fourth metatarsal stress reaction in his left foot during offseason training and conditioning. He will be reevaluated in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s a tough injury for the Mini Van, who now starts the season having to overcome injury instead of finding his place in the new construct of the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Though it\u2019s a tough injury for Niang, it doesn\u2019t affect the goals of the Jazz this season. If anything, it clears the path for the Jazz\u2019s youth to have more opportunities to play. Those minutes are on the fringes of the rotation, so it\u2019s not much of a change, but it does mean more security for the rookies and young players in their roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For now, Niang slides into more of a mentor role as he recuperates from injury and may even find some time on the floor once he comes back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz announced that Georges Niang will be out with a stress fracture in his left foot.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,49798,6,422,427,8572,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-307812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-jazz-injury-report","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-utah-jazz","14":"tag-utah-jazz-game-coverage","15":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115278741960961819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}