{"id":291099,"date":"2025-11-17T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291099\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:37:08","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-ja-morant-sidelined-for-at-least-2-weeks-with-strained-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291099\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; Ja Morant sidelined for at least 2 weeks with strained calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> announced Monday that two-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ja-morant-358178\/1065906\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ja-morant-358178\/1065906\" target=\"_blank\">Ja Morant<\/a> will miss at least two weeks with a strained right calf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Grizzlies provided the medical update after Morant hurt his calf on Saturday night early in a loss at Cleveland and said Morant will be re-evaluated in approximately two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Morant scored seven points in six minutes before exiting with right calf soreness. He missed the previous game Wednesday in Boston with a sore right ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Memphis visits San Antonio on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Grizzlies just got center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/zach-edey-1017145\/1231414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/zach-edey-1017145\/1231414\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Edey<\/a> back in that loss at Cleveland. Memphis started the season with a handful of players out injured including shooting guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ty-jerome\/942866\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ty-jerome\/942866\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Jerome<\/a> (high-grade right calf strain), guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/scotty-pippen-jr\/1176798\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/scotty-pippen-jr\/1176798\" target=\"_blank\">Scotty Pippen Jr.<\/a> (left big toe) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/brandon-clarke-358197\/892914\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/brandon-clarke-358197\/892914\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Clarke<\/a> (knee surgery).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Memphis\u2019 thin guard depth prompted the Grizzlies to sign rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jahmai-mashack-1043364\/1328248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jahmai-mashack-1043364\/1328248\" target=\"_blank\">Jahmai Mashack<\/a> to a two-way contract Sunday. He was the 59th overall pick in the June draft and has been playing with the Memphis Hustle in the NBA G League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 The Memphis Grizzlies announced Monday that two-time All-Star Ja Morant will miss at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-291099","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-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291099","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=291099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}