{"id":427070,"date":"2026-01-23T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:39:08","slug":"ja-morant-out-vs-pelicans-with-elbow-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/427070\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant out vs. Pelicans with elbow sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis has announced its long list of injuries, notably featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/ja-morant\/9983bed6-e53c-4c65-a90a-51546a0e3352\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"9983bed6-e53c-4c65-a90a-51546a0e3352\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ja Morant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies&#8217; star point guard has been ruled out for Friday&#8217;s game against the New Orleans Pelicans, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GrizzliesPR\/status\/2014473294783684780?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per the team<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Morant missed six games with a calf injury before returning to the lineup this past Sunday in London vs. Orlando, scoring a game-high 24 points and 13 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Morant had 23 points and 12 assists in Wednesday&#8217;s 124-122 to the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>Now in his sixth NBA season, Morant is averaging 19.5 points and 8.1 rebounds in 20 games this year.<\/p>\n<p>Morant has been a subject of trade rumours this season, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nba\/article\/grizzlies-ja-morant-addresses-trade-rumours-im-a-very-loyal-guy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suggested this week<\/a> that he prefers to stay in Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>Also out vs. New Orleans are forward Santi Aldama (knee) and Canadians Brandon Clarke (calf) and Zach Edey (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>Memphis is 18-24 and sits 11th in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis has announced its long list of injuries, notably featuring Ja Morant. The Grizzlies&#8217; star point guard has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-427070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427070","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=427070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}