{"id":613160,"date":"2026-02-20T06:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613160\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:57:43","slug":"grizzlies-kentavious-caldwell-pope-wont-return-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613160\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies&#8217; Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: Won&#8217;t return in 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771454089_143_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/MEM\/memphis-grizzlies\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/360.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/MEM\/memphis-grizzlies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grizzlies<\/a> announced Thursday that <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/2067660\/caldwell-pope\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caldwell-Pope<\/a> underwent surgery to address the misalignment of his right pinky finger and will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell-Pope is expected to make a full recovery ahead of next season and holds a $21.6 million player option for 2026-27. He&#8217;ll finish this season with averages of 8.4 points, 2.7 assists and 2.5 rebounds in 21.3 minutes per contest across 51 regular-season games (14 starts). Cam Spencer, Walter Clayton (calf) and Jahmai Mashack are candidates to see an uptick in minutes due to Caldwell-Pope being sidelined for the rest of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grizzlies announced Thursday that Caldwell-Pope underwent surgery to address the misalignment of his right pinky finger and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,2825,294,865,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-613160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-fantasy-basketball","10":"tag-grizzlies","11":"tag-kentavious-caldwell-pope","12":"tag-memphis","13":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","14":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116101661316941504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613160","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=613160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}