{"id":323096,"date":"2025-10-05T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/323096\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:41:24","slug":"zach-edey-has-left-ankle-surgery-that-could-sideline-him-for-the-start-of-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/323096\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Edey has left ankle surgery that could sideline him for the start of next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Zach Edey could miss the start of the 2025-26 season after the Memphis Grizzlies rookie center had surgery Tuesday on his left ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Edey needed the procedure to repair and restabilize his ankle after spraining it again during offseason training last week. The Grizzlies said the 7-foot-3 Canadian would be evaluated again in four months, which is less than two weeks before the 2025-26 season opens Oct. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time national player of the year at Purdue missed 12 games early in the season because of a sprained left ankle. He went on to play in 66 games, making 55 starts, and averaged 9.2 points and a rookie-leading 8.3 rebounds. He was voted to the All-Rookie first team.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Zach Edey could miss the start of the 2025-26 season after the Memphis Grizzlies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[2889,7,294,588,113,293,177,4070,6,446,12513,66,689,483,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-323096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-athlete-injuries","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-grizzlies","11":"tag-in-state-wire","12":"tag-indiana","13":"tag-memphis","14":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","15":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-basketball","18":"tag-purdue-boilermakers","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tennessee","21":"tag-tn-state-wire","22":"tag-zach-edey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115322322098616113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323096","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=323096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}