{"id":663684,"date":"2026-03-17T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/663684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:17:13","slug":"santi-aldama-undergoes-knee-procedure-out-for-remainder-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/663684\/","title":{"rendered":"Santi Aldama Undergoes Knee Procedure, Out For Remainder Of Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grizzlies have ruled out big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/aldamsa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Santi Aldama<\/a> for the remainder of the season, the team announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GrizzliesPR\/status\/2034024216912085023\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Aldama underwent an arthroscopic procedure and received an orthobiologic injection on Tuesday to address discomfort in the trochlear compartment of his right knee. He is expected to make a full recovery prior to the start of next season. The team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/03\/santi-aldama-undergoes-arthroscopic-procedure-on-knee-out-indefinitely.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">revealed<\/a> on Sunday that Aldama would undergo the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Aldama hasn\u2019t played since February 4 due to ongoing knee pain. He averaged a career-high 14.0 points and 6.7 rebounds in 27.9 minutes per game in 43 appearances for Memphis this season after signing a three-year, $52.5MM contract in restricted free agency last summer. He shot 47.9% from the floor and 35.0% from beyond the three-point line, both above his career rates.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, the team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/03\/grizzlies-scotty-pippen-jr-to-undergo-toe-surgery.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pippesc02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scotty Pippen Jr.<\/a> underwent toe surgery and would sit out the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies\u2019 training room has been busy all season. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jeromty01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ty Jerome<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/e\/edeyza01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zach Edey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/clarkbr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brandon Clarke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/moranja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ja Morant<\/a> have all missing significant chunks of action. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/caldwke01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kentavious Caldwell-Pope<\/a> was ruled out for the remainder of \u201925\/26 last month after undergoing finger surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grizzlies have ruled out big man Santi Aldama for the remainder of the season, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,2710,294,178,865,293,177,4070,6,1185,627,1201,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-663684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-clarke","10":"tag-grizzlies","11":"tag-ja-morant","12":"tag-kentavious-caldwell-pope","13":"tag-memphis","14":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","15":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-santi-aldama","18":"tag-scotty-pippen-jr","19":"tag-ty-jerome","20":"tag-zach-edey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116246835653720848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663684","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=663684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}