{"id":559018,"date":"2026-01-25T02:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/559018\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T02:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:30:16","slug":"grizzlies-ja-morant-diagnosed-with-ucl-sprain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/559018\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies’ Ja Morant diagnosed with UCL sprain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ja Morant has been averaging 19.5 points, 8.1 assists and 3.3 rebounds while appearing in 20 of the Grizzlies\u2019 43 games thus far.<\/p>\n

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant is expected to miss at least the next three weeks due to a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow.<\/p>\n

The injury occurred Wednesday during the Grizzlies\u2019\u00a0124-122 loss<\/a>\u00a0to the Atlanta Hawks. The Grizzlies announced the severity of the injury Saturday and said the two-time All-Star would be re-evaluated in approximately three weeks.<\/p>\n

This represents the latest setback in a tumultuous season for Morant, who had missed six games with an injured right calf before returning Sunday for the Grizzlies\u2019\u00a0126-109 victory<\/a>\u00a0over the Orlando Magic in London.<\/p>\n

Morant has appeared in only 20 of the team\u2019s 43 games this season and has averaged 19.5 points, 8.1 assists and 3.3 rebounds amid\u00a0trade speculation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ja Morant has been averaging 19.5 points, 8.1 assists and 3.3 rebounds while appearing in 20 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,822,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-559018","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-injury","11":"tag-memphis","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115953391449893397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559018","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=559018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}