{"id":36436,"date":"2025-05-16T06:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/36436\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T06:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:07:12","slug":"ja-morant-injury-update-memphis-grizzlies-reveal-status-ahead-of-nba-play-in-vs-mavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/36436\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies reveal status ahead of NBA play-in vs Mavs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/sports\/grizzlies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Memphis Grizzlies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Memphis Grizzlies <\/a>star Ja Morant is questionable to play against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Mavericks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> on Friday (8:30 p.m., ESPN).<\/p>\n<p>Morant is dealing with a right ankle sprain he suffered in Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/grizzlies\/2025\/04\/15\/grizzlies-warriors-score-ja-morant-steph-curry-nba-playoffs\/83101473007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:121-116 loss against the Golden State Warriors.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">121-116 loss against the Golden State Warriors. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Morant did not practice on Thursday with the Grizzlies. Coach Tuomas Iisalo said he will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ja-morant-injury-grizzlies-star-195417384.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:gametime decision on Friday.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gametime decision on Friday. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he feels he&#8217;s good to go, we have full trust in him,&#8221; Iisalo said on Thursday. &#8220;He&#8217;s also a very good judge of how and if he&#8217;s ready to go or not. I&#8217;m leaning on the experts in this situation, which clearly I&#8217;m not in the medical department.<\/p>\n<p>Morant was injured in the third quarter against Golden State. He returned with 9:26 left in the fourth quarter and played the remainder of the game. He finished with 22 points on 9-for-18 shooting and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Morant told reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ja-morant-available-next-play-064223908.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;I&#039;m playing&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I&#8217;m playing&#8221; <\/a>when asked about his status for Friday. Memphis will give Morant most of Friday to test his ankle before determining his playing status.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Damichael Cole is the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Memphis Grizzlies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> beat writer for The Commercial Appeal. Contact Damichael at damichael.cole@commercialappeal.com. Follow Damichael on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DamichaelC.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/grizzlies\/2025\/04\/17\/ja-morant-injury-update-memphis-grizzlies-basketball-mavs\/83112329007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies star questionable vs Mavs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies star questionable vs Mavs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant is questionable to play against the Dallas Mavericks on Friday (8:30 p.m., ESPN).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7168,7,149,164,294,178,293,177,4070,6,181,1139],"class_list":{"0":"post-36436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-ankle-sprain","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-grizzlies","13":"tag-ja-morant","14":"tag-memphis","15":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","16":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-the-grizzlies","19":"tag-tuomas-iisalo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114516016711947987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}