{"id":255257,"date":"2025-11-01T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255257\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:24:07","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-suspend-ja-morant-for-1-game-for-conduct-detrimental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255257\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies suspend Ja Morant for 1 game for conduct detrimental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Memphis Grizzlies suspended star point guard Ja Morant for one game due to conduct detrimental to the team, it was announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspension by the Grizzlies comes one day after a frustrated Morant told reporters to \u201cgo ask the coaching staff\u201d about his struggles during Memphis\u2019 117-112 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Morant was held to a season-low eight points, going 3-of-14 from the field, and seven assists. Asked about what he noticed in the game, Morant was again terse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAccording to them, probably don\u2019t play me, honestly,\u201d Morant said. \u201cThat\u2019s basically what the message was. It\u2019s cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Morant gave similar responses about asking the coaching staff when responding to questions without explaining further. He is averaging a career-low 28.5 minutes through six games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">First-year Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo\u2019s postgame news conference ended before he could be asked about Morant\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Grizzlies next play the Raptors in Toronto on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Memphis Grizzlies suspended star point guard Ja Morant for one game due to conduct detrimental to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,96368,459,82],"class_list":["post-255257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/255257","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=255257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}