{"id":485705,"date":"2026-02-27T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485705"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:46:10","slug":"utah-jazzs-lauri-markkanen-out-at-least-two-weeks-with-hip-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/utah-jazzs-lauri-markkanen-out-at-least-two-weeks-with-hip-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz&#8217;s Lauri Markkanen out at least two weeks with hip injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1369\" data-end=\"1584\">The <strong data-start=\"1373\" data-end=\"1386\">Utah Jazz<\/strong> will be without <strong data-start=\"1403\" data-end=\"1422\">Lauri Markkanen<\/strong> for at least two weeks, as an <strong data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1460\">MRI<\/strong> on Thursday revealed symptomatic <strong data-start=\"1494\" data-end=\"1513\">hip impingement<\/strong> with associated inflammation and a <strong data-start=\"1549\" data-end=\"1564\">bone bruise<\/strong>, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1706\">Markkanen also twisted his <strong data-start=\"1613\" data-end=\"1628\">right ankle<\/strong> in Wednesday\u2019s practice, but tests on the ankle came back clean, per sources.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1708\" data-end=\"2033\">It\u2019s the latest blow for Utah, which in the last two weeks has announced <strong data-start=\"1781\" data-end=\"1798\">season-ending<\/strong> injuries to <strong data-start=\"1811\" data-end=\"1832\">Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/strong> (knee), <strong data-start=\"1841\" data-end=\"1857\">Jusuf Nurkic<\/strong> (nose) and <strong data-start=\"1869\" data-end=\"1891\">Vince Williams Jr.<\/strong> (knee). The Jazz were also without <strong data-start=\"1927\" data-end=\"1945\">Keyonte George<\/strong> in Thursday\u2019s 129-118 loss to the <strong data-start=\"1980\" data-end=\"2004\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong> due to a right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2035\" data-end=\"2187\">Utah dropped to <strong data-start=\"2051\" data-end=\"2060\">18-41<\/strong>, the third-worst record in the West. Markkanen is averaging a team-high <strong data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2148\">26.7 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2150\" data-end=\"2166\">6.9 rebounds<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2171\" data-end=\"2186\">2.1 assists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MRI shows symptomatic hip impingement with inflammation and a bone bruise; reevaluation set in 14 days<\/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-485705","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\/485705","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=485705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485705\/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=485705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485705"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485705"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485705"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}