Chandler Parsons’ first season with the Memphis Grizzlies has been one to forget, and it’s unlikely we’ll remember it any more than we do now.
Because he’ll hardly played.
The Grizzlies announced on Monday night that Parsons has a partial meniscus tear in his left knee and would be out indefinitely. According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN.com, the injury will require season-ending surgery—Parsons’ third such setback in three years:
Memphis Grizzlies small forward Chandler Parsons will likely undergo season-ending surgery for the third consecutive year, sources told ESPN.
The Grizzlies said Monday night that Parsons is out indefinitely with a partial tear of the meniscus in his left knee, which is not the knee he had operated on the previous two years. Sources said that a final decision on whether he needs surgery is likely to be made later this week after Parsons is further evaluated.
It was Parsons’ right knee that cut each of his two seasons with the Dallas Mavericks short. That he’s now injured the other knee is hardly encouraging.
It would be different if he had been playing well. The Grizzlies would have been able to at least point to this being the other leg, an unrelated injury. But Parsons has been struggling to get right all year, and he never got there. And now he’ll have to begin the rehabilitation process all over, yet again starting from square one upon his return.
The Grizzlies, meanwhile, have to be regretting the four-year, $94 million they gave parsons. It’s unlikely he ever lives up to it now, though it’s not impossible he makes a successful recovery and on-court about-face, and his cap hit will prevent them from making any major moves in free agency.
