{"id":535571,"date":"2026-01-14T07:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/535571\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:10:25","slug":"latest-ja-morant-trade-update-is-bad-news-for-celtics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/535571\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Ja Morant Trade Update Is Bad News For Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics have <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/11\/celtics-should-pray-ja-morant-doesnt-land-with-this-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:good reason;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">good reason<\/a> to fear Ja Morant landing with the Miami Heat, and new intel from ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania suggests that\u2019s a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Shams said on Tuesday that the Heat have a \u201clevel of interest\u201d in Morant and are expected to be in contact with the Memphis Grizzlies, who are interested in trading Ja.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s even worse about a Morant-Miami deal is that Ja <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ohnohedidnt24\/status\/2011180977205211379?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:isn\u2019t expected to demand a huge return;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">isn\u2019t expected to demand a huge return<\/a> on the market right now, which means that the Heat presumably wouldn\u2019t have to give up a ton to get him.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With a goal to advance through the East playoffs and reach the NBA Finals, the Celtics already have their hands full with teams like the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>If Miami is able to add Morant and successfully incorporate him into their culture by the time the postseason rolls around, the Heat could be dangerous. This could make Boston\u2019s postseason path more difficult than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Morant is averaging 19.0 points, 7.6 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game this year in 18 games played. He still hasn\u2019t returned to the kind of MVP-type form he once displayed in Memphis, but he\u2019s also only 26 years old. A change of scenery could unleash Ja once again, and the Celtics are hoping it\u2019s not in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/top-celtics-trade-target-anthony-davis-responds-shocking-rumors\/\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Top Celtics Trade Target Anthony Davis Responds To Shocking Rumors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">  Top Celtics Trade Target Anthony Davis Responds To Shocking Rumors <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics have good reason to fear Ja Morant landing with the Miami Heat, and new intel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,188,178,177,189,6,191,567],"class_list":{"0":"post-535571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-detroit-pistons","14":"tag-ja-morant","15":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","16":"tag-miami-heat","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-new-york-knicks","19":"tag-shams-charania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115892206052300278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535571","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=535571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}