{"id":562572,"date":"2026-03-25T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562572\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:21:10","slug":"ja-morant-brandon-clarke-to-miss-remainder-of-2025-26-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562572\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant, Brandon Clarke to miss remainder of 2025-26 NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 The Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; front office on Tuesday, March 24, shared a medical update on three key players.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time All-Star Ja Morant will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 NBA season. Morant will receive a platelet-rich plasma injection to address lingering discomfort related to a UCL sprain that has kept him sidelined for a significant portion of the season, according to a statement from the Grizzlies. He is expected to make a complete recovery before the start of next season.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Brandon Clarke will &#8220;continue his rehabilitation program&#8221; after recent tests suggest that additional healing on a right calf sprain is necessary before he is cleared for &#8220;high-intensity court work,&#8221; the medical update read. He will miss the rest of the 2025-26 season, but is expected to make a full recovery before the start of next season.<\/p>\n<p>Center Zach Edey underwent surgery to address ongoing discomfort in his left elbow, but is expected to make a full recovery before the start of next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 The Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; front office on Tuesday, March 24, shared a medical update on three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-562572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562572","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=562572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}