{"id":475352,"date":"2024-01-09T09:42:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475352"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:42:59","slug":"morant-to-have-campaign-ending-shoulder-procedure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/morant-to-have-campaign-ending-shoulder-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Morant to have campaign-ending shoulder procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant will undergo a campaign-ending procedure on his right shoulder, the franchise shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Grizzlies&#39; Ja Morant will undergo season-ending surgery for a labrum tear in his shoulder, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/217vhGpXxR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/217vhGpXxR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1744554835037311138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ja sustained a subluxation of his right shoulder during a practice in the past weekend, sidelining him for Sunday\u2019s road victory against the Phoenix Suns. Morant underwent an MRI that showed an underlying labral tear and will require a procedure to repair it, the organization announced.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis superstar is expected to be fully recovered for the beginning of the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise went 6-3 with Ja on the court, matching the Grizzlies\u2019 win total during the 25-match ban he served to begin the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Morant will be the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> organization\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> starter to undergo a campaign-ending procedure. Steven Adams is sidelined for the entire campaign after undergoing a procedure during the preseason for a knee problem.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis is in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> place in the West Conference and most likely will miss the postseason without Morant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant will undergo a campaign-ending procedure on his right shoulder, the franchise shared today. BREAKING: Grizzlies&#39; Ja Morant will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475356,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17281,16884,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17950,17838,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Grizzlies superstar is to have season-ending surgery.","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\/475352"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475358,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475352\/revisions\/475358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475352"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475352"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}