{"id":84233,"date":"2025-06-08T04:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/84233\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:38:13","slug":"zach-edey-injury-ankle-surgery-for-memphis-grizzlies-center-past-purdue-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/84233\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Edey injury, ankle surgery for Memphis Grizzlies center, past Purdue star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/75621798007-241010-grizzliesvs-hornets-preseason-18.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Jenkins on Zach Edey&#8217;s development, how he helps Grizzlies win<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis coach on how the former Purdue Star is helping the Grizzlies win right now and where he looks for second-half improvement.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\/\" data-autotag=\"14fae80b-1f91-422e-983f-9b615a7fd757\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/college\/purdue\/2025\/02\/21\/zach-edey-purdue-big-man-memphis-grizzlies-3-pointers-pacers\/79364592007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/college\/purdue\/2025\/02\/21\/zach-edey-purdue-big-man-memphis-grizzlies-3-pointers-pacers\/79364592007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Zach Edey<\/a> received bad news on the injury front.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/sports\/boilermakers\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/sports\/boilermakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Purdue basketball<\/a> star re-sprained his left ankle in an offseason workout and will undergo surgery to re-stabilize it, according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania. He will likely miss the beginning of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies said Edey is expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/grizzlies-zach-edey-to-have-surgery-after-re-spraining-left-ankle\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/grizzlies-zach-edey-to-have-surgery-after-re-spraining-left-ankle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">make a full recovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edey started 55 of 66 games for the Grizzlies during his rookie season. He averaged 9.2 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocked shots per game. Edey took fifth in the NBA Rookie of the Year voting and made first-team All-Rookie.<\/p>\n<p>While at Purdue, Edey was named the national college player of the year twice.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ESPN reporting: Memphis Grizzlies All-Rookie center Zach Edey re-sprained his left ankle in an offseason workout this week and will undergo surgery to re-stabilize the ankle. Edey will likely miss the beginning of the 2025-26 NBA season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v1jDJ4TU2g\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/v1jDJ4TU2g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1931421208441983132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 7, 2025<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Jenkins on Zach Edey&#8217;s development, how he helps Grizzlies win The Memphis coach on how the former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[12038,7,657,12040,3744,319,325,60,1184,130,133,267,284,268,294,12039,131,270,293,177,4070,318,6,62,67,61,81,269,2467,3751,12515,118,66,83,271,1183,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-84233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-12038","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-big","11":"tag-big-10-hub","12":"tag-boilermakers","13":"tag-college","14":"tag-college-sports","15":"tag-content","16":"tag-edey","17":"tag-espn","18":"tag-espn-inc","19":"tag-exclude","20":"tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","21":"tag-from","22":"tag-grizzlies","23":"tag-hub","24":"tag-inc","25":"tag-logic","26":"tag-memphis","27":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","28":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","29":"tag-mens","30":"tag-nba","31":"tag-neutral","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-overall","34":"tag-overall-neutral","35":"tag-paywall","36":"tag-purdue","37":"tag-purdue-boilermakers-mens-basketball","38":"tag-purdue-sports-content-sharing","39":"tag-sharing","40":"tag-sports","41":"tag-sports-news","42":"tag-testing","43":"tag-zach","44":"tag-zach-edey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84233","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=84233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}