{"id":487314,"date":"2026-03-09T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487314"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:48:10","slug":"utah-jazz-waive-vince-williams-after-season-ending-acl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/utah-jazz-waive-vince-williams-after-season-ending-acl-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz waive Vince Williams after season-ending ACL injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1554\" data-end=\"1800\">The <strong data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1571\">Utah Jazz<\/strong> are <strong data-start=\"1576\" data-end=\"1602\">waiving Vince Williams<\/strong>, league sources told <em data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1635\">HoopsHype<\/em>. <br data-start=\"1674\" data-end=\"1677\" \/>Williams is <strong data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"1728\">out for the remainder of the season<\/strong> after suffering a <strong data-start=\"1747\" data-end=\"1759\">torn ACL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1802\" data-end=\"2065\">The move opens a roster spot as Utah reshapes its depth with Williams sidelined long-term. <br data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"1935\" \/>His injury was confirmed by imaging, with recovery expected to stretch into the offseason.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2067\" data-end=\"2408\">Across <strong data-start=\"2074\" data-end=\"2094\">four NBA seasons<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"2104\" data-end=\"2125\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> and Jazz, Williams has averaged <strong data-start=\"2158\" data-end=\"2202\">7.7 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists<\/strong> in 21.3 minutes per game. <br data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2271\" \/>Next steps will depend on rehab progress and future opportunities once he returns to full health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HoopsHype reports Utah is moving on from Williams, who is out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL.<\/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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-487314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"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\/487314","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=487314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487314\/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=487314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487314"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487314"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487314"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}