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Former Pitt C Steven Adams Suffers Season-Ending Injury

Former Pitt Panthers center Steven Adams will be out for the season before it even starts.

Stephen Thompson

Former Pitt C Steven Adams Suffers Season-Ending Injury
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PITTSBURGH -- Former Pitt Panthers center Steven Adams' 2023 season is over before it has even begun. 

Adams, who is still one of the highest-rated recruits to ever sign with Pitt, has suffered a knee injury that will keep him sidelined for all of the 2023-24 campaign. He attempted to heal his knee without surgery, but it was to no avail and he will now need a procedure to fix it.  

The Grizzlies had hoped Adams could help them anchor what would once again be one of the NBA's best defenses alongside Jaren Jackson Jr. and Marcus Smart. But now they'll have to play all of their season without him and about a quarter of the season without suspended superstar point guard Ja Morant. 

Adams spent just one year in Pittsburgh as a five-star recruit out of New Zealand, who ended up playing his high school ball at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Massachusetts. According to 247Sports, he is the highest-rated recruit to ever sign with Pitt since they began rating prospects in 2007. But he averaged just 7.2 points and 6.3 rebounds per game in his lone season with the Panthers before being drafted 12th overall by the Oklahoma City Thunder. 

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Stephen Thompson
STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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