{"id":397924,"date":"2026-01-09T21:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397924\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:07:09","slug":"grizzlies-open-to-trade-offers-for-guard-ja-morant-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397924\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies open to trade offers for guard Ja Morant: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ja Morant (12) has played in 18 games this season and averaged 19.0 points and 7.6 assists per game. Elsa \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Memphis Grizzlies are open to trade offers for two-time NBA All-Star guard Ja Morant ahead of the Feb. 5 trade deadline, a league source confirmed to The Athletic.<\/p>\n

ESPN first reported Friday that Memphis was entertaining offers for the 26-year-old and that multiple teams were pursuing Morant in trade talks.<\/p>\n

In 18 games this season, Morant has averaged 19.0 points (his lowest total since his rookie season) and 7.6 assists per game. His 2-point (47.0) and 3-point (20.8) percentages are also his lowest in an NBA season, though his availability has been sporadic.<\/p>\n

Morant has missed the Grizzlies\u2019 past three games due to a right calf contusion. He also suffered a calf strain in November that caused him to miss nearly a month. Less than two weeks into the season, the Grizzlies suspended Morant<\/a> for one game for \u201cconduct detrimental to the team\u201d after his apparent criticism of coaches following a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n

After finishing second in the Western Conference in 2021-22 (when Morant won Most Improved Player) and 2022-23, the Grizzlies stumbled to a 27-55 record in 2023-24, a season in which Morant only played nine games. They finished 48-34 last season after firing coach Taylor Jenkins and replacing him with Tuomas Iisalo in the campaign\u2019s final weeks.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies enter Friday\u2019s game against Oklahoma City at 16-21, losing five of their last six games. They sit 10th in the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ja Morant (12) has played in 18 games this season and averaged 19.0 points and 7.6 assists per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7741,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-397924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}