{"id":256267,"date":"2025-11-01T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256267\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:55:09","slug":"ja-morant-suspended-one-game-by-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256267\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant suspended one game by Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1890757\" class=\"wp-image-1890757 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ja_Morant_1920x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1890757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ja Morant was suspended one game for conduct detrimental to the team following Memphis\u2019 game against the Lakers on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Grizzlies have suspended star point guard Ja Morant for one game for conduct detrimental to the team, per a statement released by the team on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The issue reportedly stems from comments made by Morant following Memphis\u2019 117-112 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1984713733382312334\" rel=\"nofollow\">per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>. He will miss the team\u2019s Sunday game against the Toronto Raptors (6 ET, League Pass).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Suspension comes as a result of Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo challenging Morant&#8217;s leadership and effort in a postgame exchange after loss to the Lakers on Friday night \u2014 to which Morant responded in a tone deemed inappropriate, sources said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N31fGXkabw\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/N31fGXkabw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1984713733382312334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ja Morant was suspended one game for conduct detrimental to the team following Memphis\u2019 game against the Lakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,151261,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-256267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ja-morant-grizzlies","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}