{"id":413258,"date":"2026-01-14T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413258\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:33:09","slug":"ja-morant-calf-to-miss-game-vs-magic-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413258\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant (calf) to miss game vs. Magic in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ja Morant is averaging 19 points, 3.2 rebounds and 7.6 assists per game this season.<\/p>\n

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant will not play in the NBA Berlin Game 2026 vs. the Orlando Magic on Thursday (2 p.m. ET, Prime Video<\/a>), the team announced Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Morant is recovering from a right calf contusion, an injury that has caused him to miss the team\u2019s last five games.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies (17-22) are No. 10 in the Western Conference and Morant has been available for 18 games this season. Memphis is 6-12 when Morant plays, and he is averaging 19 points, 3.2 rebounds and 7.6 assists per game this season.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the season, Morant missed 10 straight games with a Grade 1 right calf sprain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ja Morant is averaging 19 points, 3.2 rebounds and 7.6 assists per game this season. Memphis Grizzlies guard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,218461,590,85],"class_list":["post-413258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ja-morant-out-nba-berlin-games-2026","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413258","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=413258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}