{"id":484619,"date":"2026-02-20T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484619"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:00:28","slug":"grizzlies-kentavious-caldwell-pope-out-for-season-after-pinky-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/grizzlies-kentavious-caldwell-pope-out-for-season-after-pinky-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope out for season after pinky surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1327\">The <strong data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1198\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> announced <strong data-start=\"1209\" data-end=\"1237\">Kentavious Caldwell-Pope<\/strong> underwent <strong data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1265\">pinky surgery<\/strong> on Thursday and will be sidelined for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1451\">Caldwell-Pope appeared in <strong data-start=\"1355\" data-end=\"1367\">51 games<\/strong>, averaging <strong data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1393\">8.1 points<\/strong>, as Memphis managed rotation continuity through the year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1622\">He has a <strong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1493\">$21.6 million player option<\/strong> for next season, and the team also noted <strong data-start=\"1535\" data-end=\"1548\">Ja Morant<\/strong> is expected to miss at least two more weeks with a left elbow UCL sprain.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1708\"><em data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1640\">Source: RealGM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis guard had surgery Thursday and will miss the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":375025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-484619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Memphis-Grizzlies.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484619"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484619"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484619"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}