{"id":601886,"date":"2026-02-14T01:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/601886\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:31:15","slug":"cedric-coward-injury-update-grizzlies-rookie-out-for-rising-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/601886\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Coward injury update: Grizzlies rookie out for Rising Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rookie Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> wing Cedric Coward won’t play in the NBA Rising Stars games on Feb. 13 due to right knee soreness, a Grizzlies team spokesperson told The Commercial Appeal. He will be reevaluated after the NBA All-Star break.<\/p>\n

Coward suffered the injury in the second quarter on Feb. 9 against the Golden State Warriors. He did not play on Feb. 11 against the Denver Nuggets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Coward has been one of the NBA’s most productive rookies this season He is averaging 13.3 points and 6.2 rebounds in 48 games played.<\/p>\n

Memphis will still be represented during the Rising Stars contest. Second-year wings Cam Spencer and Jaylen Wells were also selected to participate.<\/p>\n

Four teams will participate in the games. Spencer is playing for “Team T-Mac,” and Wells will represent “Team Vince.” Coward was also selected for Team Vince.<\/p>\n

Team T-Mac and Team Vince are scheduled to play in the second game.<\/p>\n

Damichael Cole is the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> beat writer for The Commercial Appeal. Contact Damichael at damichael.cole@commercialappeal.com. Follow Damichael on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DamichaelC.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Cedric Coward injury update for NBA Rising Stars challenge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie Memphis Grizzlies wing Cedric Coward won’t play in the NBA Rising Stars games on Feb. 13 due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,8675,3522,187,164,294,2597,20729,293,177,4070,6,5023],"class_list":{"0":"post-601886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cam-spencer","10":"tag-cedric-coward","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-golden-state-warriors","13":"tag-grizzlies","14":"tag-jaylen-wells","15":"tag-knee-soreness","16":"tag-memphis","17":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","18":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-the-commercial-appeal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116066404591575211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601886","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=601886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}