According to Chris Haynes, Jaren Jackson Jr. is likely to miss the remainder of the season to have surgery on his left knee.<\/p>\n
Haynes mentions that he is having the surgery to ensure his longterm health after a localized PVNS growth was discovered post trade.<\/p>\n
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So what\u2019s a PVNS growth? It sounds like it\u2019s a benign tumor that can grow over time and can cause problems if not taken care of at some point. Here\u2019s a lot of information about it.<\/p>\n
The other point of interest: did the Jazz know about this? Apparently, this popped up in the physical after the trade? Tony Jones provided more context with that.<\/p>\n
Now, this is something you could quibble with. Was Markkanen and Nurkic injured when they rested during those fourth quarters too?<\/p>\n
Regardless, it\u2019s nice that Jazz fans got a chance to get a flavor of what this could be because it looked really good. Markkanen and Jackson look and play huge together and have a chance to be a dominant force starting next season.<\/p>\n
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Obviously, the internet jumped on the story and what seemed like a clear tanking move by the Jazz, but that feels disingenuous. Do we really think a player would go through a literal surgery for a tank to happen? Does it coincide nicely with what is best for the Jazz long-term? Absolutely, and no doubt the Jazz were likely happy to let him make a decision for surgery that he might not have had the right opportunity to make it happen. This is a great opportunity to do an optional surgery, and it will help him stay healthier long-term<\/p>\n
On Zach Lowe\u2019s podcast, he mentioned that the door isn\u2019t shut on him returning, but it\u2019s very possible this is the last we\u2019ll see of Jaren Jackson Jr. this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Chris Haynes, Jaren Jackson Jr. is likely to miss the remainder of the season to have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,1717,6891,6684,496,423,4295,6,26269,477,5592,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-604521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chris-haynes","10":"tag-doug-mcdermott","11":"tag-jaren-jackson","12":"tag-jaren-jackson-jr","13":"tag-jazz","14":"tag-markkanen","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nurkic","17":"tag-sacramento-kings","18":"tag-the-jazz","19":"tag-utah","20":"tag-utah-jazz","21":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116074697384915312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604521","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=604521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}