{"id":519181,"date":"2026-01-06T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519181\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:38:14","slug":"ja-morant-injury-update-memphis-grizzlies-star-questionable-vs-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519181\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies star questionable vs Spurs"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/ja-morant-injury-latest-status-182856170.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ja 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\">Ja Morant<\/a> is questionable to play on Jan. 6 due to a right calf contusion against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Antonio Spurs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (7 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network).<\/p>\n<p>Morant was added to the injury report on Jan. 3, a day after the Grizzlies lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/grizzlies\/2026\/01\/02\/grizzlies-lakers-score-live-updates-lebron-james-ja-morant\/87993564007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:128-121 against the Lakers in their previous matchup,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">128-121 against the Lakers in their previous matchup,<\/a> which also was at crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He missed the Jan. 4 loss against the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Morant has dealt with a calf injury. He suffered a Grade 1 right calf strain in a Nov. 15 matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers. He missed 10 games and returned on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n<p>He has missed 17 games this season. In 18 appearances, he&#8217;s averaging 19 points and 7.6 assists.<\/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\/2026\/01\/05\/ja-morant-injury-update-memphis-grizzlies-spurs-baketball\/88038049007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies star questionable vs Spurs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ja Morant injury update: Memphis Grizzlies star questionable vs Spurs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant is questionable to play on Jan. 6 due to a right calf contusion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,17419,1716,193,7107,294,178,300,293,177,4070,6,474],"class_list":["post-519181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-basketball","tag-calf-contusion","tag-calf-injury","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-fanduel-sports-network","tag-grizzlies","tag-ja-morant","tag-lakers","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115845366058919604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519181","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=519181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}