{"id":567323,"date":"2026-01-29T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/567323\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:02:13","slug":"rockets-center-steven-adams-has-brutal-ankle-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/567323\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets center Steven Adams has brutal ankle injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/houston-rockets\/news\/rockets-center-steven-adams-injury\/fa2509a08e243a4185e25b7b?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rockets center Steven Adams has brutal ankle injury update;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rockets center Steven Adams has brutal ankle injury update<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Rockets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Rockets<\/a> center Steven Adams will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season after undergoing surgery on his left ankle, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Adams was injured in the fourth quarter of Houston&#8217;s win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/new-orleans-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pelicans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pelicans<\/a> on January 18. He originally left the game after landing awkwardly during a shooting contest at the rim, which was elevated to a Grade 3 sprain.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets said Adams is expected to make a full recovery following the procedure. The 32-year-old averaged 5.8 points, 8.6 rebounds, and 1.5 assists in 22.8 minutes over 32 games in his second season with Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old is from Rotorua, New Zealand. He was selected 12th overall in the first round of the 2013 NBA Draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma City Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> after playing for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockets center Steven Adams has brutal ankle injury update originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,194,6,179,675,962],"class_list":{"0":"post-567323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston-rockets","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","12":"tag-pelicans","13":"tag-steven-adams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115975457612203160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567323","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=567323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}