{"id":1164721,"date":"2026-02-24T01:29:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1164721"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:29:50","slug":"jazz-center-jusuf-nurkic-to-have-nose-surgery-and-miss-the-rest-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/jazz-center-jusuf-nurkic-to-have-nose-surgery-and-miss-the-rest-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz center Jusuf Nurkic to have nose surgery and miss the rest of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Utah Jazz center Jusuf Nurkic will undergo nose surgery this week and miss the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz coach Will Hardy said before Monday\u2019s game against Houston that Nurkic has needed the procedure for a while.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has had a really bad deviated septum in his nose,\u201d Hardy said. \u201cHe has gotten hit in the face four or five times this year. His recent sickness has pushed that forward. It\u2019s something that he\u2019s needed to get done for a while now, so he\u2019s going to get it taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Nurkic averaged 10.9 points and 10.4 rebounds in 41 games in his first season with the Jazz. He is scheduled to become a free agent after the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNurk has been a big part of what we\u2019ve done this year, and he helps our team in a bunch of ways,\u201d Hardy said.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/jazz-center-jusuf-nurkic-nose-012950308.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/jazz-center-jusuf-nurkic-nose-012950308.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Utah Jazz center Jusuf Nurkic will undergo nose surgery this week and miss the remainder of the season. Jazz coach Will Hardy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}