{"id":609629,"date":"2026-02-18T11:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609629\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:35:27","slug":"jaren-jackson-jr-undergoes-knee-surgery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609629\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaren Jackson Jr. Undergoes Knee Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jacksja02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/a> underwent successful surgery on Tuesday morning to remove a localized pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) growth in his left knee, the Jazz <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/jazz\/news\/jaren-jackson-jr-undergoes-successful-surgery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirmed today in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-464839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jaren-Jackson-Jr-Jazz-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>According to the team, which first announced <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/02\/jaren-jackson-jr-out-for-the-season.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last week<\/a> that Jackson would be undergoing the procedure, the surgery was performed in Salt Lake City by Dr. Travis Maak, the Jazz\u2019s head orthopedic team physician. The former Defensive Player of the Year will begin the rehabilitation process and will be reevaluated in four weeks, per the club.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that Jackson will be examined in four weeks, Utah previously indicated that he\u2019ll be out for the rest of the season. The expectation is that the big man will be fully healthy for training camp in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, 26, was traded from Memphis to Utah at this month\u2019s deadline and appeared in three games for his new team before being shut down, averaging 22.3 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 2.0 steals in 24.0 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz stated last week that they identified the PVNS growth in Jackson\u2019s knee via MRI during a post-trade physical and determined along with Jackson and his representatives \u2013 after consulting multiple medical experts \u2013 that surgery was necessary to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/orthoinfo.aaos.org\/en\/diseases--conditions\/pigmented-villonodular-synovitis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons<\/a>, a PVNS growth isn\u2019t cancerous and doesn\u2019t spread to other areas of the body, but PVNS is a progressive disease that can lead to bone damage and arthritis. In most cases, surgery is necessary to remove the damaged joint lining and the growth.<\/p>\n<p>Second-year Jazz forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/willico04.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cody Williams<\/a>, who started each of his past 15 games prior to Jackson\u2019s debut, came off the bench while JJJ was active, then returned to the starting five last Thursday in Utah\u2019s final contest before the All-Star break. He\u2019ll likely remain in that starting role with Jackson sidelined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaren Jackson Jr. underwent successful surgery on Tuesday morning to remove a localized pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) growth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,496,423,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-609629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jaren-jackson-jr","10":"tag-jazz","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-utah-jazz","14":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116091429458559043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609629","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=609629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}