{"id":473716,"date":"2023-12-22T03:20:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T07:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473716"},"modified":"2023-12-22T02:58:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T06:58:51","slug":"ja-morant-returns-in-front-of-home-fans-with-20-points-and-a-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ja-morant-returns-in-front-of-home-fans-with-20-points-and-a-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant returns in front of home fans with 20 points and a win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his first home game after serving a 25-game suspension, Ja Morant contributed 20 points and eight assists to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 116-103 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Bane emerged as Memphis&#8217;s top scorer with 31 points, also recording seven assists. Jaren Jackson Jr. made a significant impact with 21 points and seven rebounds. Bane showcased his shooting prowess, going 11 of 26 from the field and hitting 5 of 12 from beyond the arc, while Morant posted a 7-of-15 shooting performance. This marked the second consecutive game where all three players scored at least 20 points, resulting in back-to-back victories for the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>On the opposing side, Obi Toppin led the Indiana Pacers with 22 points, complemented by Tyrese Haliburton&#8217;s 17 points and 14 assists. Buddy Hield and Myles Turner each contributed 15 points to the Pacers&#8217; effort.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EC12ObytW5w?si=C4LpVyVvdeaiP9bA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his first home game after serving a 25-game suspension, Ja Morant contributed 20 points and eight assists to lead the Memphis Grizzlies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":473717,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,17281,16884],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18386,17950,17838],"acf":{"announce":"Grizzlies beat Pacers 116-103 as Bane scores 31 points and 7 assists","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\/473716"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473719,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473716\/revisions\/473719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473716"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473716"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}