{"id":44292,"date":"2025-05-20T01:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/44292\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T01:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:47:17","slug":"ja-morant-injury-update-memphis-grizzlies-star-out-vs-trae-young-atlanta-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/44292\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies star out vs Trae Young, Atlanta Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<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>will be missing two key players against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/atlanta-hawks\/1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Hawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Monday night (7 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network).<\/p>\n<p>Ja Morant (right shoulder soreness) and Santi Aldama (right calf soreness) are both out against the Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Morant is missing his second consecutive game due to a shoulder injury. Aldama was<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ja-morant-listed-injury-report-173902781.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:added to the injury report on Monday morning.;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\"> added to the injury report on Monday morning. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any long term concern,&#8221; Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just some day to day soreness that he&#8217;s been (and) not feeling comfortable with. How the arm is raising after taking a hit or two. Over the course of the last couple of weeks, he&#8217;s been playing through it. Obviously I think this is more of a short term situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aldama has played in 52 games this season. Morant, who has appeared in 37 games, hasn&#8217;t played more than five consecutive games at any point this season.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis (38-22) is 24-13 when Morant plays and 14-9 when he is unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Bane, Luke Kennard and Scotty Pippen Jr. are among the players in line to get more playing time in Morant&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Aldama being out opens up a frontcourt spot or potentially more minutes for GG Jackson and Jay Huff.<\/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\/03\/03\/ja-morant-injury-update-memphis-grizzlies-atlanta-hawks\/81225307007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies star out vs Atlanta Hawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies star out vs Atlanta Hawks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Memphis Grizzlies will be missing two key players against the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night (7 p.m.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[208,7,12190,497,7107,294,178,4960,293,177,4070,6,1185,627,10849,10535],"class_list":{"0":"post-44292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-calf-soreness","11":"tag-desmond-bane","12":"tag-fanduel-sports-network","13":"tag-grizzlies","14":"tag-ja-morant","15":"tag-jay-huff","16":"tag-memphis","17":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","18":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-santi-aldama","21":"tag-scotty-pippen-jr","22":"tag-shoulder-injury","23":"tag-shoulder-soreness"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114537643750451153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44292","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=44292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}