{"id":508323,"date":"2026-02-12T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508323"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:37:12","slug":"jazzs-jackson-out-until-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jazzs-jackson-out-until-the-end-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz&#8217;s Jackson out until the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Jazz star Jaren Jackson Jr. will have a procedure to remove a growth in his left knee, the organization revealed today.<\/p>\n<p>Jaren, a 2-time All-Star acquired from the Grizzlies in a blockbuster deal at the deadline, will not play this campaign anymore. It is expected that he will be healthy before the start of the training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, the 2022-23 Defensive Player of the Year, who is averaging almost 20 points and 6 boards per match in the current campaign, will have the surgery during the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Jaren is not feeling pain in the knee, but doctors deemed it necessary that he undergo the procedure now to avoid expansion.<\/p>\n<p>In his 3 matches with Utah, the forward averaged almost 23 points, 5 boards, and 3 assists while being on the court 24 minutes, sitting out 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors were that the forward didn\u2019t play in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarters as the Jazz were trying to tank, but now it\u2019s clear that this happened because of his problem, and now he will not play until next campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jaren Jackson Jr. is \u201clikely to miss\u201d the rest of the season to undergo surgery on his left knee, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ChrisBHaynes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VQftu88Z0w\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VQftu88Z0w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/2021984992948367818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Jazz star Jaren Jackson Jr. will have a procedure to remove a growth in his left knee, the organization revealed today. Jaren, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507822,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18388,17198],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18869,18125],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Jaren will miss the rest of the campaign after surgery.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508324,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508323\/revisions\/508324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508323"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508323"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}