Jazz’s Taylor Hendricks suffers gruesome leg injury that requires stretcher in shocking scene

Jazz guardant Taylor Hendricks suffered a fractured correct fibula and and dislocated ankle successful a gruesome segment Monday nighttime that required him being removed from nan level via a stretcher.

The erstwhile first-round prime attempted to slow down while moving up nan level during nan 3rd 4th against nan Mavericks but past slipped, pinch his correct limb being caught underneath him.

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When Hendricks swung his limb out, nan bottommost information of his limb appeared to beryllium pointing correct successful an unnatural position.

The 20-year-old scooted guardant and past put his hands connected his head, seemingly realizing thing unspeakable had happened.

Individuals attended to Hendricks while he sat connected nan level and immoderate of his teammates came to cheque connected him earlier being loaded onto nan stretcher.

He later was ruled retired for nan remainder of nan title and nan Jazz tweeted aft nan title that further specifications would beryllium provided erstwhile appropriate.

Hendricks exited nan crippled pinch nan Jazz (0-3) trailing by 5 successful their eventual 110-102 loss.

He scored 2 points and tallied 3 rebounds successful 21 minutes, shooting 0-for-5 and missing 3 3-pointers.

Utah drafted Hendricks pinch nan ninth prime successful nan 2023 NBA Draft retired of UCF pursuing a beardown freshman play successful which he averaged 15.1 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.7 blocks.

Hendricks averaged 7.3 points and 4.6 rebounds past play successful his rookie twelvemonth spanning 40 games (23 starts) and has started each 3 games for nan Jazz this year.

Utah exercised his third-year rookie standard option for nan 2025-26 play past week.

The Jazz hosts nan Kings connected Thursday successful nan 2nd crippled of a back-to-back successful hunt of their first win.