{"id":661067,"date":"2026-03-16T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/661067\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:53:55","slug":"utah-announces-isaiah-collier-injury-update-amid-game-vs-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/661067\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah announces Isaiah Collier injury update amid game vs. Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> absorbed their third straight loss after <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/kings-news-doug-christie-reacts-sacrament-move-nba-draft-bust\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing to the Sacramento Kings, 116-111<\/a>, at Golden 1 Center on Sunday. The Jazz have now dropped 10 of their last 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat to the Kings could be extra costly, as Isaiah Collier could miss some time. He suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/utahjazz\/status\/2033394322658545773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">knee contusion<\/a> in the middle of the fourth quarter and was ruled out for the remainder of the contest, as announced by the team on X.<\/p>\n<p>Collier finished with 21 points on 9-of-21 shooting, five rebounds, and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old guard has already missed 11 games this season due to a hamstring strain and, more recently, an illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/utah-jazz\/jazz-news-colin-cowherd-jazz-fans-fine-tanking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Jazz have been criticized for suddenly benching players<\/a>, including Lauri Markkanen, Jaren Jackson Jr., and Brice Sensabaugh, in the fourth quarter, purportedly tanking games to improve their odds at getting the top overall pick in the draft lottery.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA has already fined Utah $500,000 for \u201cconduct detrimental to the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The severity of Collier&#8217;s knee contusion remains unclear, but fans are already skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 45th fake injury in the last week,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jhatem\/status\/2033395420945146145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> @jhatem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think anyone will believe this? Have some shame, you&#8217;re a failure,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hogsmeadd\/status\/2033394858400915883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">added<\/a> @hogsmeadd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd y\u2019all are some b****** for losing games on purpose,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BubbaHubbaWubba\/status\/2033394862620545227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">exclaimed<\/a> @BubbaHubbaWubba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLMAO, get the f*** out of here,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatsFlamini\/status\/2033394435254526031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote<\/a> @PatsFlamini.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF*** Isaiah Collier, trash ah player like the whole Jazz team,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Yoooshiiiiii_\/status\/2033395270289940639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">commented<\/a> @Yoooshiiiiii_.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz fell to 20-48, trailing only the Kings, who improved to 18-51, for the worst record in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Utah has never won the No. 1 overall pick since the draft lottery was introduced in 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz absorbed their third straight loss after losing to the Sacramento Kings, 116-111, at Golden 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,957,423,6,14502,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-661067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-isaiah-collier","10":"tag-jazz","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-injury","13":"tag-utah","14":"tag-utah-jazz","15":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116238723529306523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661067","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=661067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}