{"id":620668,"date":"2026-02-23T21:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/620668\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:39:18","slug":"jazzs-jusuf-nurkic-to-undergo-surgery-miss-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/620668\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz&#8217;s Jusuf Nurkic To Undergo Surgery, Miss Rest Of Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nurkiju01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jusuf Nurkic<\/a> will undergo a surgical procedure on his nose on Tuesday and will miss the remainder of the season, NBA on Prime insider Chris Haynes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/2026028201114562906\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nurkic has appeared in 41 games this season, including 36 starts. The 31-year-old big man is averaging 10.9 points, 10.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 26.4 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>Nurkic hasn\u2019t played since the All-Star break. Earlier in the season, he missed time due to a toe injury and also had several DNP-CDs. He was a prime candidate to be dealt before the Feb. 5 trade deadline due his expiring $19.3MM contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz never found a suitable deal for him, so instead that money will come off their cap and Nurkic will be seeking a new opportunity as an unrestricted free agent. Utah is expected to have significant cap space this offseason to chase free agents and facilitate trades.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Jazz\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/jazz-to-trade-collin-sexton-to-hornets-for-jusuf-nurkic.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">raised eyebrows<\/a> over the summer when they attached a second-round pick to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sextoco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-31_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Collin Sexton<\/a> in a trade with Charlotte for Nurkic.\u00a0However, Nurkic played a larger role than anticipated due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kesslwa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-31_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walker Kessler<\/a>\u2018s season-ending shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>With Nurkic out of the picture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/filipky01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Filipowski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/loveke01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Love<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tshieos01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-23_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oscar Tshiebwe<\/a> are the team\u2019s options in the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazz center Jusuf Nurkic will undergo a surgical procedure on his nose on Tuesday and will miss the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,5088,1678,1251,6,2460,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-620668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-jusuf-nurkic","11":"tag-kevin-love","12":"tag-kyle-filipowski","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-oscar-tshiebwe","15":"tag-utah","16":"tag-utah-jazz","17":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116122115413069794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620668","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=620668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}