{"id":490543,"date":"2026-03-30T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=490543"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:08:27","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-likely-lose-jaylen-wells-for-rest-of-season-after-toe-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/memphis-grizzlies-likely-lose-jaylen-wells-for-rest-of-season-after-toe-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies likely lose Jaylen Wells for rest of season after toe surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1481\" data-end=\"1770\">Another major setback has hit the injury-ravaged <strong data-start=\"1530\" data-end=\"1551\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"1553\" data-end=\"1569\">Jaylen Wells<\/strong> will undergo surgery to repair a tendon avulsion fracture in his right big toe and, although the franchise did not provide an official recovery timeline, he is expected to miss the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1990\">In his sophomore NBA campaign, Wells had built on the strong promise of his rookie year. The 6-foot-7 wing was averaging <strong data-start=\"1893\" data-end=\"1934\">12.5 points and 3.2 rebounds per game<\/strong>, while continuing to provide very solid defensive play.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1992\" data-end=\"2275\">Wells now joins six other Grizzlies already ruled out for the season because of injuries and surgeries. That list includes <strong data-start=\"2115\" data-end=\"2217\">Santi Aldama, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Brandon Clarke, Zach Edey, Ja Morant and Scotty Pippen Jr.<\/strong>, underlining how severely Memphis has been hit this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-year wing will undergo surgery to repair a tendon avulsion fracture<\/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-490543","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\/490543","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=490543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490543\/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=490543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490543"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=490543"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=490543"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=490543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}