{"id":193559,"date":"2025-10-06T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193559\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:01:08","slug":"grizzlies-star-ja-morant-week-to-week-with-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193559\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies star Ja Morant week-to-week with ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><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> star guard <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> is considered week to week due to a sprained left ankle he suffered during Sunday&#8217;s practice, according to a team spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Grizzlies now have three starters recovering from injuries that could sideline them for the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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> underwent surgery to address laxity in his left ankle in June. He is not expected to return to play until mid-to-late November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Power forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jaren-jackson-jr\/1078662\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jaren-jackson-jr\/1078662\" target=\"_blank\">Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/a> underwent surgery to repair a turf toe injury in July. The team announced a return-to-play timetable of four to six weeks for Jackson before the start of training camp, which makes his availability uncertain for the Grizzlies&#8217; Oct. 22 opener against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Morant, a two-time All-Star, has played a total of only 59 games over the past two seasons. He suffered a season-ending torn labrum in January 2024 after playing in only nine games following a 25-game suspension to begin the season. Morant dealt with a variety of injuries last season, when he averaged 23.2 points and 7.3 assists per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant is considered week to week due to a sprained left ankle he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,96369,96368,459,82],"class_list":["post-193559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ja-morant-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1065906","tag-memphis-grizzlies-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-29","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}