{"id":430660,"date":"2023-03-23T07:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T11:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=430660"},"modified":"2023-03-23T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:15:37","slug":"grizzlies-overpower-rockets-130-125-on-morants-return","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/grizzlies-overpower-rockets-130-125-on-morants-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies overpower Rockets 130-125 on Morant&#8217;s return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies beat Houston Rockets 130-125 in a highly anticipated game on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4 of them. we move.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memgrizz\/status\/1638729526917070848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All eyes were on Ja Morant as he made his first NBA start since his infamous eight-game suspension back in March 4.<\/p>\n<p>Morant didn&#8217;t disappoint as he managed to bag 17 points and 4 rebounds, coming on from the bench. He ended up playing 24 minutes overall<\/p>\n<p>Jaren Jackson Jr. was the highest-scoring Grizzlies&#8217; player as the 23-year old achieved a season-high with 37 points and 10 rebounds. Desmond Bane had 20 points, while Tyus Jones added another 14. They both had seven assists.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Green scored 32 points for the Rockets, while Kenyon Martin Jr. had 31. Alperen Sengun added another 25 for Houston. Kevin Porter reached his second career triple-double, his first of the season, as the Houston player came home with 14 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p>With this victory Memphis Grizzlies clinch the Southwest Division title for a second consecutive year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_24090\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2xhixUarHU?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/l2xhixUarHU\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies beat Houston Rockets 130-125 in a highly anticipated game on Wednesday night. 4 of them. we move. &mdash; Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":430661,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18389,17044,17281,18388,16884],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Ja Morant scored 17 points coming off the bench, while Jaren Jackson Jr. had a season-high 37 points","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/430660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430660"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=430660"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=430660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}