{"id":839306,"date":"2026-09-19T23:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/839306\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T23:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:27:19","slug":"video-shows-ja-morants-7-word-reaction-to-being-traded-by-the-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/839306\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows Ja Morant’s 7-word reaction to being traded by the Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ja Morant<\/a>\u2019s seven years with the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> ended in a whimper.<\/p>\n

The Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> guard Morant was the subject of a viral clip that was released this week. The video showed Morant\u2019s live reaction to the news that he had been traded from the Grizzlies to the Blazers in late June.<\/p>\n

Morant reacted with a stunned seven-word reaction. \u201cDamn. They sent me to Portland, man,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

You can see the video at the link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Morant, 27, had spent his entire NBA career with the Grizzlies up to that point, making two All-Star teams and an All-NBA team and also earning himself a $197.2 million designated rookie max extension from the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n

The former No. 2 overall draft pick Morant had also publicly affirmed his commitment and loyalty to Memphis many times in the past<\/a>. But in the end, Morant\u2019s baggage (including multiple suspensions for flashing guns over social media and clashes with both his teammates and coaches alike<\/a>) proved to be too much for the Grizzlies to continue to deal with.<\/p>\n

That said, Morant is now getting a much-needed fresh start on an up-and-coming Blazers team. Morant himself also sounds very optimistic about the move and recently issued a four-word prediction about next season in Portland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ja Morant\u2019s seven years with the Memphis Grizzlies ended in a whimper. The Portland Trail Blazers guard Morant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,178,293,177,4070,6,471],"class_list":["post-839306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-basketball","tag-grizzlies","tag-ja-morant","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117300300591835759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839306","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=839306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}