Tari Eason's Hit on Jazz Guard Leads to Season-Ending Injury

Rockets forward Tari Eason hit Williams during a fastbreak situation early in the second quarter. As Williams tumbled to the sideline, Eason proceeded to deliver a dunk.

Unfortunately, Williams got injured on the play and was seen holding his left leg in pain. Video replay showed Williams' leg bending awkwardly backward following Eason's hit.

On Monday, Shams Charania of ESPN reported that Williams tore his ACL and will be out for the season as a result.

"Utah Jazz guard Vince Williams Jr. has been diagnosed with a season-ending torn left ACL, sources tell ESPN. Williams sustained the injury in a collision with Tari Eason in Houston on Monday night," Charania wrote.

For what it's worth, Sarah Todd of Deseret News reported after the game that Eason visited Williams in the Jazz locker room to check on him. He reportedly said that he had no "malicious intent" and wanted Williams to know that "he was never trying to hurt anyone."

Whatever the case may be, Williams' season is now over. In total, he played just six games for the Jazz after being sent to Utah from the Memphis Grizzlies as part of the Jaren Jackson trade.

Williams averaged 4.7 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists in his short stint with the Jazz this campaign.

The 25-year-old guard now joins Walker Kessler, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Jusuf Nurkic on the sidelines for the Jazz.

Kessler was ruled out earlier in the season due to a shoulder injury, while Nurkic is set to undergo a season-ending procedure on his nose amid "complications with breathing and sleeping since fracturing his nose a few years ago."

Jackson, on the other hand, had a localized pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) growth removed from his left knee. The Jazz have yet to rule him out for the season, though.