{"id":36616,"date":"2025-05-16T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/36616\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T08:08:12","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-provide-ja-morant-injury-update-before-milwaukee-bucks-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/36616\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies provide Ja Morant injury update before Milwaukee Bucks game"},"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 will miss the matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks due to right shoulder soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday will be his <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ja-morant-injury-memphis-grizzlies-010548465.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:second consecutive game missed due to that injury.;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\">second consecutive game missed due to that injury.<\/a> Memphis defeated Houston <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/grizzlies-finally-beat-rockets-0-072349773.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:120-119 on Thursday night without Morant.;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\">120-119 on Thursday night without Morant. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With Morant out, the Grizzlies (32-16) likely will turn to Desmond Bane and Luke Kennard as their top starting backcourt options. The Grizzlies are 13-7 without Morant this season.<\/p>\n<p>Morant initially suffered his right shoulder injury after absorbing a bump in practice on Wednesday. Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins said that it&#8217;s believed that Morant&#8217;s latest injury is a &#8220;short-term&#8221; one.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis will be back in action on Monday against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/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\/02\/02\/ja-morant-injury-update-memphis-grizzlies-milwaukee-bucks\/78167663007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ja Morant injury update: Grizzlies star out vs Bucks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ja Morant injury update: Grizzlies star out vs Bucks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant will miss the matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks due to right shoulder soreness.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,497,294,292,178,1171,293,177,4070,121,6,474,10849,10535,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-36616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-desmond-bane","10":"tag-grizzlies","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-ja-morant","13":"tag-luke-kennard","14":"tag-memphis","15":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","16":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","17":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","20":"tag-shoulder-injury","21":"tag-shoulder-soreness","22":"tag-the-grizzlies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114516492731055204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36616","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=36616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}