{"id":289413,"date":"2025-11-17T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289413\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:41:12","slug":"grizzlies-ja-morant-out-at-least-two-weeks-with-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289413\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies&#8217; Ja Morant out at least two weeks with calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star point guard <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"9983bed6-e53c-4c65-a90a-51546a0e3352\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/ja-morant\/9983bed6-e53c-4c65-a90a-51546a0e3352\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ja Morant<\/a> will be out and re-evaluated after approximately two weeks due to a Grade 1 right calf strain, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GrizzliesPR\/status\/1990484177096155523\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Morant suffered the injury Saturday in a loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>It will mark his third absence of the season after an ankle injury and a one-game suspension for conduct detrimental to the team sidelined him previously.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time all-star has played in 12 games this season, averaging 17.9 points \u2014 a mark that would be his lowest since his rookie campaign \u2014 to go with 7.6 assists and 3.5 rebounds per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis is mired in a four-game losing streak and sits 12th in the Western Conference at 4-10.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies return to action Tuesday on the road against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star point guard Ja Morant will be out and re-evaluated after approximately two weeks due to a Grade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-289413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289413","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=289413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}