{"id":507341,"date":"2026-01-24T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507341"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:27:47","slug":"grizzlies-morant-will-miss-at-least-3-weeks-with-an-elbow-sprain","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/grizzlies-morant-will-miss-at-least-3-weeks-with-an-elbow-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies\u2018 Morant will miss at least 3 weeks with an elbow sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; controversial star Ja Morant will be sidelined at least 3 weeks because of an ulnar collateral ligament sprain in his left elbow, the organization revealed today, which means that he will be unable to play through the February 5<sup>th<\/sup> trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis has been entertaining trade offers for the guard since the beginning of January, but now it seems very unlikely that a trade would happen after the Ja&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n<p>However, the interest in Morant was not huge, as the main reason for that was the injuries that Ja often suffers. He has appeared in a total of only 79 matches since the beginning of the 2023-24 campaign because of suspensions and several injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The guard has averaged almost 20 points and over 8 assists while shooting career worsts of 41.0% from the floor and below 24% from the 3-point line in 20 matches in the current campaign. Morant has 2 years and 87 million dollars remaining on his current deal beyond the current campaign after Memphis declined to engage the guard in extension talks in the past offseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ja Morant will miss at least three weeks after suffering a UCL sprain in his left elbow on Wednesday, the Grizzlies announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rkns6Dq0yR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Rkns6Dq0yR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/2015094525484487025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; controversial star Ja Morant will be sidelined at least 3 weeks because of an ulnar collateral ligament sprain in his left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507342,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17281,16884],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17950,17838],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Ja is out past the trade deadline as he will be sidelined for 3 weeks.","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\/507341"}],"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=507341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507343,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507341\/revisions\/507343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507341"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507341"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}