{"id":128456,"date":"2026-01-10T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128456\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:33:07","slug":"sacramento-has-lukewarm-at-best-interest-in-ja-morant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128456\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento has &#8216;lukewarm at best&#8217; interest in Ja Morant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Getting back to Morant, though \u2014 what sort of trades make sense? The most hilarious outcome would be if Atlanta traded for him, but the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/atlanta-hawks\/1\/\" data-autotag=\"6d961911-3a35-4c3b-8eee-3aaa21d0ddac\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Hawks<\/a> presumably would already have him in uniform if there had been any interest. A quick canvas around the league indicated that some other potential trade partners also don\u2019t quite add up as Morant destinations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6959490\/2026\/01\/10\/ja-morant-trade-market-grizzlies-clippers-timberwolves\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Times\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento\u2019s interest is lukewarm at best, according to a well-placed league source, with the Kings likely looking at a much deeper and longer rebuild than just throwing assets at a Morant deal.<\/a> They seemingly only get mentioned here because of the \u201cVivek Ranadive\u0301 is crazy enough to do this\u201d factor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6959490\/2026\/01\/10\/ja-morant-trade-market-grizzlies-clippers-timberwolves\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Times\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getting back to Morant, though \u2014 what sort of trades make sense? The most hilarious outcome would be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[243,11365,121,123,122,25548,25549,11364,66282,509,37796,7081,259,13493,499,377,66283,246],"class_list":["post-128456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-accessfree","tag-ga","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagatlanta","tag-tagatlanta-hawks","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagja-morant","tag-tagnew-york-times-company","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsacramento","tag-tagsacramento-kings","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagsports-transactions","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}