{"id":555340,"date":"2026-01-23T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/555340\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:31:11","slug":"grizzlies-telling-teams-theyre-very-comfortable-keeping-ja-morant-past-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/555340\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies Telling Teams They&#8217;re &#8216;Very Comfortable&#8217; Keeping Ja Morant Past Trade Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies are telling teams that they\u2019re \u201cvery comfortable\u201d keeping <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/moranja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-21_bbr\">Ja Morant<\/a> past the 2026 NBA trade deadline, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HeatCulture13\/status\/2014051208114155776?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Haynes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NBA trade deadline is February 5 at 3 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Memphis Grizzlies have made it clear to other teams that they are very comfortable keeping Ja Morant,\u201d Haynes said. \u201cTrying to think if I believe that or not, but that\u2019s what they\u2019re saying. Are the Memphis Grizzlies willing to give up Ja Morant for a similar <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/youngtr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-21_bbr\">Trae Young<\/a> package? So that\u2019s what makes it tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morant is making $39.4 million this season. The two-time All-Star and the Grizzlies have mutual interest in parting ways, sources told\u00a0DallasHoopsJournal.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis is entertaining offers to trade Morant, who doesn\u2019t have a no-trade clause in his contract. Multiple teams are pursuing Morant in trade talks and rival executives believe the Grizzlies are prioritizing draft picks and young players in return.<\/p>\n<p>Morant \u201chates\u201d playing for Grizzlies head coach Tuomas Iisalo, sources said. The point guard is not a fan of Iisalo\u2019s strategy of playing lineups in short shifts and then mass substituting. It has prevented Morant from getting his legs underneath him and developing a rhythm on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Morant has played in 19 games this season. He\u2019s averaging 19.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 7.8 assists per game while shooting 40.7% from the field, 23.5% from beyond the arc and 89.0% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019-20 Rookie of the Year, Morant has led the Grizzlies to the second round of the playoffs just once. That was back in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Morant, 26, has career averages of 22.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game. He was the second overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft out of Murray State.<\/p>\n<p>It will be intriguing to see if Morant gets traded by the Grizzlies, who currently sit in 11th place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Morant has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dallashoopsjournal.com\/p\/heat-bucks-kings-raptors-pelicans-grizzlies-ja-morant-nba-trade-rumors-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">linked<\/a> to the Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors, Sacramento Kings, Miami Heat and New Orleans Pelicans in trade rumors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dallashoopsjournal.com\/p\/category\/nba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latest NBA News &amp; Rumors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Memphis Grizzlies are telling teams that they\u2019re \u201cvery comfortable\u201d keeping Ja Morant past the 2026 NBA trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,178,293,177,4070,6,3101,6050],"class_list":{"0":"post-555340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-ja-morant","11":"tag-memphis","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-news","16":"tag-nba-rumors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555340","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=555340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}