{"id":485257,"date":"2026-02-24T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485257"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:44:57","slug":"jazz-fear-vince-williams-suffered-a-torn-acl-mri-scheduled-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jazz-fear-vince-williams-suffered-a-torn-acl-mri-scheduled-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz fear Vince Williams suffered a torn ACL; MRI scheduled Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1608\" data-end=\"1934\">A major concern for the <strong data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1645\">Utah Jazz<\/strong>: <strong data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1665\">Vince Williams<\/strong> left the game against the <strong data-start=\"1692\" data-end=\"1711\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> in the first half, and multiple reports indicate team sources fear a <strong data-start=\"1781\" data-end=\"1807\">significant ACL injury<\/strong>. Williams is set to undergo an <strong data-start=\"1839\" data-end=\"1857\">MRI on Tuesday<\/strong> to confirm the diagnosis and timeline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1936\" data-end=\"2274\">The injury occurred in the second quarter after Williams was <strong data-start=\"1997\" data-end=\"2012\">hip-checked<\/strong> by <strong data-start=\"2016\" data-end=\"2030\">Tari Eason<\/strong> in transition; as he tried to steady himself, his knee bent awkwardly near the Jazz bench. Head coach <strong data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2147\">Will Hardy<\/strong> said, \u201c<strong data-start=\"2155\" data-end=\"2180\">It doesn\u2019t look great<\/strong>,\u201d and criticized the play: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2209\" data-end=\"2234\">That\u2019s not basketball<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2276\" data-end=\"2484\">Williams is averaging <strong data-start=\"2298\" data-end=\"2342\">7.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists<\/strong> this season. His contract also includes a <strong data-start=\"2385\" data-end=\"2400\">team option<\/strong> for next year worth roughly <strong data-start=\"2429\" data-end=\"2445\">$2.5 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knee injury after contact with Tari Eason vs Houston: Will Hardy\u2019s blunt reaction says it all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":394789,"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-485257","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\/07\/Utah-Jazz.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485257","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=485257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485257"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485257"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485257"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}