{"id":726528,"date":"2026-05-05T18:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/726528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:51:25","slug":"rudy-gay-on-grizzlies-theres-no-path-to-contention-without-ja-morant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/726528\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Gay on Grizzlies: &#8216;There&#8217;s no path to contention without Ja Morant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Justin Walters are joined by former NBA player Rudy Gay to discuss whether the Memphis Grizzlies should retain or trade Ja Morant. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@YahooSports\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YouTube&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">YouTube<\/a> or <a class=\"link \" href=\"http:\/\/yahoosports.tv\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YahooSports.TV;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YahooSports.TV&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">YahooSports.TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View more<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>When you talk about path to contention, I think there&#8217;s no path without Ja, for this team, you know?<\/p>\n<p>it, I mean, the, the, he&#8217;s the heart and soul of this team right now.<\/p>\n<p>I think, his health and, and, and his availability is really important to the franchise and the franchise moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Now, whether they choose to move forward with him, it&#8217;ll have to be for something, something special, you know?<\/p>\n<p>Because Ja is a special player, so you know, if I&#8217;m a businessman, I&#8217;m gonna want something in return that can do exactly what he does or better.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you can&#8217;t find that, you have to, you have to ride with Ja and, and, and try to help him become as available as possible and run with it and try to do something around him, &#8217;cause he&#8217;s that great<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Justin Walters are joined by former NBA player Rudy Gay to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,27334,294,834,293,177,4070,6,22413],"class_list":["post-726528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-basketball","tag-contention","tag-grizzlies","tag-ja","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba","tag-path"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116523478784327708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726528","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=726528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}