{"id":643011,"date":"2026-03-06T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/643011\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:18:38","slug":"ja-morant-out-at-least-2-more-weeks-with-elbow-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/643011\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant out at least 2 more weeks with elbow injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004051\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/morant2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2004051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ja Morant will miss at least 2 more weeks as he continues to recover from a sprained UCL in his left elbow.<\/p>\n<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant will miss at least two more weeks as he continues to recover from a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his\u00a0<a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/grizzlies-guard-ja-morant-has-ucl-sprain-and-will-be-re-evaluated-in-about-3-weeks\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left elbow.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies announced Thursday that Morant was progressing in his rehabilitation but was still experiencing discomfort. The two-time All-Star had follow-up imaging Wednesday that showed what the team described as \u201cincomplete healing of the injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies said Morant will be re-evaluated in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Morant has appeared in 20 games this season, averaging 19.5 points and 8.1 assists. He hasn\u2019t played since\u00a0<a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/memphis-grizzlies-03ef3945d7ba993dcd91601bc39e084e\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">injuring his elbow<\/a>\u00a0on Jan. 21.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memgrizz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@memgrizz<\/a> today announced the following medical update for Ja Morant: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nlhN0DoyPh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nlhN0DoyPh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Grizzlies PR (@GrizzliesPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrizzliesPR\/status\/2029716626560413781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ja Morant will miss at least 2 more weeks as he continues to recover from a sprained UCL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,83584,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-643011","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-update","11":"tag-memphis","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116181959887919732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643011","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=643011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}