Nobody would\u2019ve guessed that four years after Ja Morant earned All-NBA Second Team honors, the Memphis Grizzlies would be shopping him. The electric 6-foot-2 point guard developed into the face of the franchise. However, the NBA can change awfully quickly. Morant has looked like a shell of himself this season. Following a few disagreements with the coaching staff, along with Morant\u2019s past, NBA analyst Tim MacMahon doesn\u2019t see how this partnership can continue any further.<\/p>\n
At one point in time, Morant<\/a> was one of the most beloved athletes in Grizzlies<\/a> history. He embodied exactly what it meant to be from Memphis. As a result, the fans took him in as one of their own. Unfortunately, the NBA is a \u2018What have you done for me lately?\u2019 league. The harsh reality is that Morant hasn\u2019t done much.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The two-time All-Star has failed to play more than 60 games for the past two seasons. He is currently on pace to make this his third consecutive year failing to reach that mark. It doesn\u2019t help that he is having the worst statistical season since elevating to an All-Star.<\/p>\n Morant is currently averaging 19.0 points, 7.6 assists and 3.6 turnovers per game on an abysmal 40.1% shooting from the field and 20.8% shooting from three-point range. A large reason for his steady decline has been due to his role within head coach Tuomas Iisalo\u2019s new offense.<\/p>\n Unlike Taylor Jenkins\u2019 offensive game plan, which highlighted Morant\u2019s skill, Iisalo\u2019s philosophy focuses on more team play. Morant has already vocalized his frustrations with his role, which has created tension between him and the coaching staff. That isn\u2019t a great development for a team that does have playoff aspirations.<\/p>\n That is how we have gotten to where we are with the Grizzlies making Morant available to trade. ESPN analyst Tim MacMahon<\/a> believes the time to part ways would be better sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cJa Morant has already had a very loud, ugly confrontation with their rookie coach,\u201d MacMahon said<\/a> on the Hoop Collective. \u201cEverybody in that arena, much less the locker room, knows they want to get rid of him. And the feeling is mutual. It\u2019s reached a point where Ja Morant\u2019s career cannot continue in Memphis.\u201d<\/p>\n That might not be exactly what Grizzlies fans want to hear, considering Morant is the face of the franchise. However, sometimes the truth hurts. MacMahon also broke down the reality of what a return package would look like for Morant at this stage of his career.<\/p>\n \u201cShams reported that the Grizzlies are looking for young players and multiple picks for Ja. Good luck with that. Because the feedback that we got on Ja wasn\u2019t any more favorable than the feedback that we got on Trae. As a matter of fact, in some cases, it was even worse,\u201d MacMahon proclaimed.<\/p>\n As we all know, the Atlanta Hawks didn\u2019t receive any young talent or draft capital for Trae Young. Instead, the return package consisted of CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert, two players who helped match the salary, along with McCollum\u2019s expiring contract. That package may have been foreshadowing for the Grizzlies for a potential return for Morant<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Who would\u2019ve thought that Desmond Bane would fetch more draft capital than Morant? However, that\u2019s just how much the trade market fluctuates. A few weeks remain until the trade deadline, which will solidify Morant\u2019s fate with the Grizzlies for this season.<\/p>\n The post \u201cCannot Continue in Memphis\u201d: NBA Analyst Believes Ja Morant\u2019s Time With the Grizzlies is Nearing Its End<\/a> appeared first on The SportsRush<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nobody would\u2019ve guessed that four years after Ja Morant earned All-NBA Second Team honors, the Memphis Grizzlies would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[208,7,7046,6339,497,294,178,293,177,4070,6,207,181,4136,494],"class_list":["post-533003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-cj-mccollum","tag-corey-kispert","tag-desmond-bane","tag-grizzlies","tag-ja-morant","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-the-grizzlies","tag-tim-macmahon","tag-trae-young"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115885407334955008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533003","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=533003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}