{"id":620737,"date":"2026-02-23T22:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/620737\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:34:18","slug":"utah-jazz-center-jusuf-nurkic-out-for-remainder-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/620737\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz Center Jusuf Nurkic Out for Remainder of Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Haynes reported the surgery is scheduled for Tuesday, adding that Nurkic has experienced breathing and sleeping complications since fracturing his nose a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nurkic averaged 10.9 points, 10.4 rebounds, 4.8 assists, and 1.3 steals, while shooting 50% from the floor, 35% from three-point range, and 55% from the free throw line in 41 games this season. The Bosnian Beast will enter unrestricted free agency following the conclusion of the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nurkic is one of three Jazz big men to be sidelined for the rest of the season. On Feb. 12, it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/nba-news-rumors\/109131\/jaren-jackson-jr-injury-news-surgery-record\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaren Jackson Jr. would sit indefinitely<\/a> following the removal of a noncancerous growth in his left knee. At the beginning of the season, fourth-year center Walker Kessler underwent left shoulder surgery and has not played since. The Jazz currently sit at 13th in the Western Conference with a 18-39 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haynes reported the surgery is scheduled for Tuesday, adding that Nurkic has experienced breathing and sleeping complications since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[53132,7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":["post-620737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-around-the-nba","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116122331824809536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620737","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=620737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}