{"id":911615,"date":"2026-09-27T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911615\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:08:11","slug":"he-might-play-in-games-an-nba-scout-told-sis-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911615\/","title":{"rendered":"He might play in games,\u201d an NBA scout told SI&#8217;s Blake \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A change of scenery could be what Ja Morant needs, but the injury history has a chance to follow him. &#8220;We will probably see a more available Ja. <a data-ylk=\"slk:He might play in games,&quot; an NBA scout told SI&#039;s Blake Silverman. &quot;He&#039;s got a bad knee, doesn&#039;t really work on his physical fitness, I doubt that he&#039;s all of a sudden become an elite-level shooter, and he&#039;s small.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;He might play in games,\\&quot; an NBA scout told SI&#039;s Blake Silverman. \\&quot;He&#039;s got a bad knee, doesn&#039;t really work on his physical fitness, I doubt that he&#039;s all of a sudden become an elite-level shooter, and he&#039;s small.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/trailblazers\/onsi\/ja-morant-injury-history-major-concern-portland-trail-blazers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">He might play in games,&#8221; an NBA scout told SI&#8217;s Blake Silverman. &#8220;He&#8217;s got a bad knee, doesn&#8217;t really work on his physical fitness, I doubt that he&#8217;s all of a sudden become an elite-level shooter, and he&#8217;s small.<\/a> So you have that, you&#8217;ve got a bad defender who&#8217;s a small guard who can&#8217;t shoot, who physically is unfit, paired next to a small guard who&#8217;s a bad defender and who can shoot [in Lillard]. So probably going to be tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A change of scenery could be what Ja Morant needs, but the injury history has a chance to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,18729,459,82],"class_list":["post-911615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ja-morant","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911615","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=911615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}