{"id":495831,"date":"2025-10-06T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495831"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:38:42","slug":"ja-morant-sprains-an-ankle-ahead-of-2025-26-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ja-morant-sprains-an-ankle-ahead-of-2025-26-nba-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant sprains an ankle ahead of 2025-26 NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies star point guard Ja Morant has reportedly suffered a left ankle sprain during practice, just weeks ahead of the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>A team spokesperson confirmed the injury on Monday, while Grizzlies beat reporter Damichael Cole shared that Morant is considered week-to-week as he recovers. \u201cPer Grizzlies team spokesperson: Ja Morant suffered a sprained left ankle in practice yesterday. He is considered week-to-week,\u201d Cole posted on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Ja Morant is considered week-to-week after suffering a sprained left ankle in practice on Sunday, per Grizzlies team spokesperson. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9HRF0Ti0lz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9HRF0Ti0lz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/1975232286455902650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The setback is another injury-related setback for the two-time All-Star. Morant played 50 games last season, the second-fewest of his career, following a 2023-24 campaign limited to just nine appearances due to suspension and a shoulder injury. Despite the interruptions, he averaged 23.2 points, 7.3 assists, and 4.1 rebounds per game, while also recording a career-best 1.2 steals per contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies open their preseason schedule tonight against the Detroit Pistons, with their regular-season opener set for October 22 against the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies star point guard Ja Morant has reportedly suffered a left ankle sprain during practice, just weeks ahead of the start of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495832,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17281,16884,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[17950,26860,17838,1067],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The recovery time is still unknown, as his condition will be monitored at week-to-week basis","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\/495831"}],"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=495831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495833,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495831\/revisions\/495833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495831"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495831"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}