{"id":488618,"date":"2026-03-18T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488618"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:20:26","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-scotty-pippen-jr-and-santi-aldama-to-miss-rest-of-season-after-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/memphis-grizzlies-scotty-pippen-jr-and-santi-aldama-to-miss-rest-of-season-after-surgeries\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; Scotty Pippen Jr. and Santi Aldama to miss rest of season after surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1919\">The <strong data-start=\"1666\" data-end=\"1687\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> announced <strong data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"1719\">Scotty Pippen Jr.<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1724\" data-end=\"1740\">Santi Aldama<\/strong> will miss the rest of the season after both underwent <strong data-start=\"1795\" data-end=\"1814\">surgery Tuesday<\/strong>. The team said the procedures were successful and both players are expected to be ready for next season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1921\" data-end=\"2096\"><strong data-start=\"1921\" data-end=\"1935\">Pippen Jr.<\/strong> had an operation on his <strong data-start=\"1960\" data-end=\"1977\">right big toe<\/strong>. He had a similar procedure in October and didn\u2019t debut until last month; in <strong data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2067\">10 games<\/strong> he averaged <strong data-start=\"2080\" data-end=\"2095\">11.4 points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2098\" data-end=\"2263\"><strong data-start=\"2098\" data-end=\"2108\">Aldama<\/strong> had a <strong data-start=\"2115\" data-end=\"2142\">procedure and injection<\/strong> to address discomfort in his <strong data-start=\"2172\" data-end=\"2186\">right knee<\/strong>. The forward was averaging <strong data-start=\"2214\" data-end=\"2229\">14.0 points<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2234\" data-end=\"2250\">6.7 rebounds<\/strong> this season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2265\" data-end=\"2539\">Memphis is <strong data-start=\"2276\" data-end=\"2285\">23-44<\/strong>, on an <strong data-start=\"2293\" data-end=\"2321\">eight-game losing streak<\/strong>, and entered Tuesday night <strong data-start=\"2349\" data-end=\"2363\">nine games<\/strong> back in the race for the final Western Conference play-in spot. <strong data-start=\"2428\" data-end=\"2441\">Ja Morant<\/strong> has played only <strong data-start=\"2458\" data-end=\"2470\">20 games<\/strong> this season and has missed the last 25 with a <strong data-start=\"2517\" data-end=\"2538\">left elbow injury<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pippen Jr. underwent surgery on his right big toe; Aldama had a procedure and injection for right knee discomfort<\/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-488618","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","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488618","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=488618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488618\/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=488618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488618"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488618"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488618"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}