HOUSTON — Rockets\u00a0center Steven Adams will be out indefinitely due to a sprained left ankle, coach Ime Udoka revealed before Tuesday’s game against the Spurs.<\/p>\n
“Severely sprained ankle,” Udoka said. “I think [it’s] a Grade 3 or so, but still gathering information, opinions. But I don’t think he’ll be back anytime soon.”<\/p>\n
Adams suffered the injury Sunday in a win over the New Orleans Pelicans while guarding Zion Williamson at the rim. Sliding over to help Alperen Sengun defend Williamson, Adams jumped to contest a shot from the Pelicans forward and immediately grabbed at his left ankle upon landing.<\/p>\n
Udoka said after the game that there was “a lot of swelling already, but nothing’s broken,” adding the injury is “not a high ankle sprain.”<\/p>\n
Adams, 32, is averaging 5.8 points and 8.6 rebounds in 22.8 minutes per game for a Rockets team that leads the NBA in rebounding (49.2 per game). No. 3 center Clint Capela now takes over as the primary backup behind Sengun, and it’s likely Houston will also use forward Jabari Smith Jr. at center in some of its lineups.<\/p>\n
In other injury news, Udoka said that forward Tari Eason will be available for Tuesday’s matchup at Toyota Center. Eason had sat out of the Rockets’ previous five games due to a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON — Rockets\u00a0center Steven Adams will be out indefinitely due to a sprained left ankle, coach Ime Udoka…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,57162,4066,6,211,75470],"class_list":{"0":"post-550022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houston-rockets-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-10","12":"tag-houstonrockets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-rockets","15":"tag-steven-adams-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-679478"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115930521093617898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550022","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=550022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}