As the Jazz trudge through another losing season with their eyes already looking ahead to this year’s loaded NBA draft, the team’s best player got hurt in practice on Wednesday.
The Salt Lake Tribune’s Kevin Reynolds was first to report star forward Lauri Markkanen had suffered hip and ankle injuries on Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday, the 28-year-old underwent an MRI which revealed symptomatic hip impingement with associated inflammation and bone bruise according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. He also twisted an ankle in Wednesday’s practice, but those tests returned clean. Markkanen will be re-evaluated in two weeks which makes the best-case scenario for his return mid-March with a month left in Utah’s season.
