{"id":546265,"date":"2026-01-19T07:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:10:25","slug":"steven-adams-injury-update-houston-rockets-star-avoids-serious-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546265\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Adams injury update: Houston Rockets star avoids serious injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Center Steven Adams suffered a sprained ankle during the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Rockets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Rockets<\/a>&#8216; game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Orleans Pelicans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> on Sunday, Jan. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Adams was unable to find a good landing upon a block attempt and fell to the ground holding his leg with 9:50 left in the fourth quarter. He went back to the locker room and did not return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rockets coach Ime Udoka told reporters after the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2914942\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:119-110;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">119-110<\/a> victory that Adams has an ankle sprain. While he was said to have had quite a bit of swelling, the center did not suffer a broken bone.<\/p>\n<p>Adams had five points, 10 rebounds and two assists in 27 minutes of play on Sunday. The former first-round pick has averaged 5.9 points and 8.6 rebounds per game this season.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rockets\/2026\/01\/19\/steven-adams-injury-update-rockets-injury\/88249724007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steven Adams injury update: Rockets center avoids major injury;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steven Adams injury update: Rockets center avoids major injury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Center Steven Adams suffered a sprained ankle during the Houston Rockets&#8216; game against the New Orleans Pelicans on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,194,1272,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,40370,962],"class_list":["post-546265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-houston-rockets","tag-ime-udoka","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelicans","tag-sprained-ankle","tag-steven-adams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115920518872500039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546265","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=546265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}