"Three days after suffering a season-ending injury, Jazz center Mehmet Okur underwent surgery to repair his ruptured left Achilles tendon on Tuesday afternoon.

And he wasn't the only injured Jazz starter to undergo a medical procedure this week.

On Monday, Andrei Kirilenko was treated with platelet-rich plasma therapy in Los Angeles to help heal his strained left calf, which has kept him out of the playoffs and forced him to miss most of the past month.

Kirilenko will begin some rehabilitation exercises later this week and could possibly be available for the second round if the Jazz advance past Denver, according to a team spokesman.

Okur, whose tendon was torn in the first quarter of Game 1 on Saturday night in Denver, was scheduled to have the procedure performed in Salt Lake City by Dr. Charles Saltzman, who is the chairman of the University of Utah's Department of Orthopaedics.

According to the team, Okur will begin "active rehabilitation" in two weeks. An update on his rehab procedure and a time frame for his recovery will be given at that point. On Sunday, the team said it might take anywhere between three and six months, and it's possible Okur might not be ready to go by the start of the 2010-11 season.

The Jazz organization left the specifics of the surgery up to Okur and his personal physician from Turkey, Dr. Mustafa Karahan.

According to Okur's personal website, Karahan recommended a consultation with a surgeon in Iowa — Dr. Annunziato Amendola, who's considered to be an expert in the field. The website reported that several conversations took place, leading to a decision that Okur would get "excellent results" at the University of Utah under the care of Saltzman, who is also the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society president."