Jaren Jackson Jr. will have surgery to remove a localized pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) growth in his left knee and will miss the remainder of the season, the Jazz announced in a press release.
The team states that the growth was identified in an MRI during a physical after Jackson was acquired in a trade with Memphis last week. The procedure is expected to take place during the All-Star break.
Jackson appeared in three games with Utah, averaging 22.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 24 minutes per night. The Jazz went 2-1 with him in their lineup.
Utah acquired Jackson to be part of a supersized frontcourt for the future alongside Lauri Markkanen and Walker Kessler. Jackson and Markkanen are both under contract for the next three seasons, with Jackson holding a $53.5MM player option for 2029/30. Kessler is considered likely to be re-signed this summer as he approaches restricted free agency.
Jackson is a two-time All-Star and was selected as Defensive Player of the Year in 2022/23. He has been named to the All-Defensive team three times and has twice led the NBA in blocks during a season.
The Jazz will convey this year’s first-round pick to Oklahoma City if it falls outside the top eight, so there’s no urgency to keep Jackson on the court. Undergoing the operation now should ensure that he’ll be fully healthy in time for training camp in the fall. Utah currently has the sixth-worst record in the league at 18-37.
Ain’t no way lol – Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis (PVNS) of the knee is a rare, benign but locally aggressive tumour-like growth that causes the joint lining to overgrow, resulting in chronic knee swelling, pain, locking, and instability. Jaren is the first player in league history to have this…
He’s getting put to sleep for a tattoo
Jazz don’t want to screw up their last year of real tanking. Laurie is next, but perhaps he’s not good enough to lead a team to wins so perhaps he’ll keep playing lol
Jamar please tell us , diffuse or localized? We need more information. Genetic?
The article says localized, hopefully it’s correct.
It’s like when they asked the guy who was going in for surgery about the anesthesia.
He said,
“forget that local anesthesia. Get me some of that imported stuff !!”
Wow that’s crazy. I doubt a doctor would lie about a surgery to help the team tank but I’m shocked they didn’t see this in his pre-trade exam. Or maybe they knew but didn’t think it would matter afterwards???
I wouldn’t call it lying, but there’s probably something on all our bodies that a little surgery could fix and correct.
You are correct and as a jazz fan this is disgusting and disrespectful to the NBA. This was no longer a tanking team. They found out that the team they have would have push for a play in spot and they would have lost their pic. They’ve pretty much won every game for the last five or six games, losing three of them on purpose. And now they have some BS surgery to keep Jackson out. The NBA will destroy itself and kill viewers ship if the NBA is not correct this. This has gotten way out of hand
Yes they’ve been blatantly losing games on purpose but like knicksfancavsfan said I doubt a doctor would lie about him needing a surgery. The doctor wouldn’t just be lying to the league. He’d also have to be lying to Jackson as I highly doubt he’d want an unneeded surgery on his knee and possible radiation. He’d be breaking the The Hippocratic Oath.
This also can be serious as it can cause bone erosion and joint damage if left untreated. There’s a ton of other ailments that don’t involve surgery that can cause an athlete to miss games.
I just reached out to one of my head surgeon doctor friends and he said that where this could be a legit procedure. The recovery timeline is not as long as they’re putting out to be and he could do this in the off-season as well and be out for a month and a half. So two things can be true. You’re correct. Maybe he really does need it but it also is a tank job by getting it done right now or by saying you’re out for the entire season
Another team trying to tank. It’s a competition. i don’t follow college basketball that much. who will be the number one pick everybody wants? Does this class have a Flagg?
Perhaps 3 Flaggs. It’s one of the better drafts in a while.
No, it’s not. Have you watched college basketball? It’s a bunch of potential All-Stars and low-level NBA players. What guy jumps off the table and is such a great player that you got a tank for? I understand. Indiana, Washington, Brooklyn, Sacramento,
Indiana
Your best player is out and the team is constructed around him. So they added pieces that when he comes back and adding another young piece pretty much prolonged the team. Without haile This team is not a playoff team and they over exceeded last year expectations anyway so I have no problem with them tanking out this year.
Brooklyn
Pretty much doesn’t have anything and they’re a bottom team anyway. So play the young guys till you get a top pick or a top three pick which they should get this year and then they can start moving pieces around that.
Washington
Was in the same situation and so they traded for Trae, young and AD. Ad was already hurt and the wizards two other young players in draft player from last year was already hurt for the season. So to me there’s no problem with them throwing the young guys out and then competing with their players that they just traded for. I do believe that they should throw AD and Trey young out there at the end of March so the team can see what they have and what they’re going to develop around them
Sacramento
They just needed to tear the team down completely 100%. . With the players they have, they’re not good enough to win. They have a bad cap sheet and pretty much are at the level zero of tanking so there’s no problem with that team taking.
Memphis
They just started their reconstruction by trading all their players. So it’s okay for them to throw young guys out there in tank. They’re obviously trying to move off marantz
Any other team should not be tanking. They should be playing now. Teams will miss the playoffs naturally and then you may jump up in the draft and be able to get a player. But to try to tank the season away is ridiculous. Especially for the Utah Jazz when your pic is top 8 guaranteed and you have a team that is going to be pushing for the playoffs. A. Hypothetical 19-year-old player, especially if they don’t get a top three pick is not going to help his team out when they have their starting lineup already figured out.
I’m sorry I meant to say low level all NBA players. Not low level players
Which drafts of recent vintage would you say were better?
Up to 10 Flaggs honestly. Lots of instant all-stars in this draft. The next 2 drafts are like this too. This is why lots of teams want to tank.
Breaking: Laurie Markannen out for the season with Traumatic Anterior Nordic Kneeopathy (T.A.N.K.). Jazz can’t catch a break.
EXCELLENT
^ post of the month
LMAO!!
If this is in wrong spot. It can cause pain and liquid deposits, swelling. So he should get it done. You wonder why Grizz never cared. Or why he didn’t do it after season. Clearly a tank job.
Adam Silver is being publicly walked on a leash by the owners of terrible teams and is still prioritizing an entirely new league on a different continent over fixing the glaring issues the current league he is tasked with running.
Yes I said this. The players did it first as in LeBron and KD, teaming up. The other players as in embiid and kawhi Leonard sitting out and missing games. And players who are 24 and 25 and 26 years old resting in games. And now the owners with all the tanking in cutting players it’s crazy. I do like the second apron and I wish the NBA instead of doing a 2nd apron went to a hard cap obviously grandfathering some players salarys. But I just don’t see how the NBA continuously gets better from here. You got to get a hold on the tanking and you got to get on the hold on the player sitting and not playing. If you do that mixed in with the second apron or a hard cap, you’ll have a better product cuz players will be playing and the competitive nature will come back
i am impressed by the jazz. this is creative
GSW had a huge offer for JJJ on the table…bullet dodged!!!
Reports say that this injury was found during his physical examination after the trade and that he played low minutes due to medical concerns. Interesting timing though.