{"id":946849,"date":"2026-10-30T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946849\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:50:15","slug":"ja-morant-to-miss-four-weeks-with-left-hamstring-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946849\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant to miss four weeks with left hamstring strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2411439\" class=\"wp-image-2411439 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ja_morant_1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2411439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two-time All-Star Ja Morant will be re-evaluated in four weeks after suffering a hamstring injury on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers guard Ja Morant suffered a grade two left hamstring injury and will be re-evaluated in four weeks, according to the team. The injury occurred during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/mem-vs-por-0022600146\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday night\u2019s game<\/a> against the Memphis Grizzlies as the Blazers were handed their first loss of the season by Morant\u2019s former team.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trail Blazers guard Ja Morant sustained a left hamstring injury during last night\u2019s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. Imaging revealed a grade two left hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p>Morant will be re-evaluated in four weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pbn8OmB2Bi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Pbn8OmB2Bi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/trailblazers\/status\/2116238920681939233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was off to a fast start in his first season in Portland, averaging 15.8 points and 5.5 assists while shooting 54.2% from the field and 42.9% from 3-point range through four games.<\/p>\n<p>With Morant on the mend, the Trail Blazers will lean more on the rest of their strong backcourt depth, anchored by franchise icon Damian Lillard.<\/p>\n<p>NBA.com will have more on this story as it develops.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Star Ja Morant will be re-evaluated in four weeks after suffering a hamstring injury on Thursday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,514312,514311,590,85],"class_list":["post-946849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ja-morant-blazers","tag-ja-morant-injury","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946849","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=946849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}