Steven Adams has been out since late January with a sprained ligament in his right knee.
Grizzlies center Steven Adams will ‘likely’ miss the remainder of the season with the sprained knee ligament that has sidelined him since late January, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Saturday.
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— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 8, 2023
Adams, 29, has missed 35 straight games since spraining his right posterior cruciate ligament in a 112-10 loss in Phoenix on Jan. 22.
The Grizzlies lost six of the first seven games without their starting center, but despite the ensuing suspension of star Ja Morant they maintained well enough to win 51 games entering Sunday’s finale while locking up the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference.
Adams, who had been initially expected to miss little more than a month, averaged 8.6 points and 11.5 rebounds in 42 regular-season games, all starts.
In addition to a career season from fellow big man Jaren Jackson Jr., the Grizzlies have been fortified by Xavier Tillman Sr. (9.7 ppg, 6.7 rpg in 29 starts) in Adams’ absence.
