{"id":609577,"date":"2026-02-18T10:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609577\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:52:31","slug":"utah-jazz-forward-jaren-jackson-jr-has-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609577\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz forward Jaren Jackson Jr. has knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Utah Jazz forward Jaren Jackson Jr. underwent surgery on Tuesday to remove a growth in his left knee.<\/p>\n

The Jazz said Jackson will begin rehabilitation and be re-evaluated in four weeks to determine his recovery status. Dr. Travis Maak performed the procedure in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n

Utah acquired Jackson<\/a> from Memphis in an eight-player trade on Feb. 3. A post-trade physical<\/a> revealed the localized pigmented villonodular synovitis growth.<\/p>\n

Jackson was acquired as a key building block<\/a> with Lauri Markkanen.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old was drafted by the Grizzlies with the No. 4 pick in the 2018 draft. He was a two-time All-Star in Memphis and the 2023 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

Jackson, who played in three games for Utah, has averaged 19.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 blocks in 48 games this season.<\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Utah Jazz forward Jaren Jackson Jr. underwent surgery on Tuesday to remove a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,10013,625,6684,423,976,6,446,4315,75525,66,4449,689,483,81030,46122,6007,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-609577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-jackson","11":"tag-jaren-jackson","12":"tag-jazz","13":"tag-lauri-markkanen","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-basketball","16":"tag-salt-lake-city","17":"tag-send-to-apple-news","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-surgery","20":"tag-tennessee","21":"tag-tn-state-wire","22":"tag-travis-maak","23":"tag-tumors","24":"tag-ut-state-wire","25":"tag-utah","26":"tag-utah-jazz","27":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116091259723325308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609577","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=609577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}