{"id":629521,"date":"2026-02-28T03:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629521\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:03:56","slug":"utah-jazz-f-lauri-markkanen-out-at-least-2-weeks-with-hip-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629521\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz F Lauri Markkanen out at least 2 weeks with hip injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Utah Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen will be reevaluated in two weeks after an MRI on Thursday showed symptomatic hip impingement with associated inflammation and bone bruise, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Markkanen also twisted his right ankle in practice Wednesday, but those tests returned clean, sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Markkanen&#8217;s injury is the latest to hit the Jazz, who in the past two weeks have announced season-ending injuries to forwards Jaren Jackson Jr. (knee) and Jusuf Nurkic (nose) and guard Vince Williams Jr. (knee). Utah was also without guard Keyonte George in Thursday night&#8217;s game against the New Orleans Pelicans because of a right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Jazz entered Thursday at 18-40, the third-worst record in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A nine-year veteran, Markkanen is averaging a team-best 26.7 points this season with 6.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen will be reevaluated in two weeks after an MRI on Thursday showed symptomatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,82624,6,422,427,49198,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-629521","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-lauri-markkanen-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-949131","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-utah-jazz","14":"tag-utah-jazz-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-26","15":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116146042677409573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629521","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=629521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}