{"id":268057,"date":"2022-03-25T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=268057"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:02:31","slug":"grizzlies-ja-morant-expected-to-miss-at-least-2-weeks-with-right-knee-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/grizzlies-ja-morant-expected-to-miss-at-least-2-weeks-with-right-knee-soreness\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies&#8217; Ja Morant expected to miss at least 2 weeks with right knee soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ja Morant is expected to miss at least the next two weeks with right knee soreness, Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins said Thursday night before the Grizzlies hosted Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Morant, the Grizzlies\u2019 leading scorer at 27.6 points per game, has missed the last two games after tweaking the knee against Atlanta last Friday. Jenkins said the team will evaluate the All-Star guard in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the plan right now,\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cWe expect him to make a full recovery before the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NrZWxldG9uX2xvYWRpbmdfMTMzOTgiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiY3RhIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19zcGFjZV9jYXJkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9mZiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1507125806908076036&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nba.com%2Fnews%2Fgrizzlies-ja-morant-out-at-least-2-weeks-with-tweaked-knee&amp;sessionId=9d36906fbd1f698282a22d9b13cbe487c262695d&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1507125806908076036\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Even without Morant, the Grizzlies built a big lead early before coasting to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/ind-vs-mem-0022101096\">133-103 victory<\/a>\u00a0over the Pacers to clinch a spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Jenkins noted that what was recently a tight rotation has expanded to include other players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">\u201cUnfortunately, with a couple of guys nicked up, it creates some of these opportunities,\u201d the Memphis coach said. \u201cBut guys have stayed the course and stayed ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Besides Morant, the Grizzles were also without Dillon Brooks, who rested his left ankle, and Brandon Clarke (left hip soreness) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper\"><iframe class=\"endeavor-embed endeavor-embed-1421247 endeavor-embed-prod\" src=\"https:\/\/watch.nba.com\/embed2?id=1421247&amp;autostart=false&amp;mute=true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-endeavor-id=\"1421247\" data-endeavor-env=\"prod\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Game Recap: Grizzlies 133, Pacers 103<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Morant missed 12 games earlier this season with a left knee sprain and sat out the game before Atlanta with back soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins indicated that further scans and tests on Morant showed \u201cnothing structurally. Nothing major issues like that. Just soreness that we want to be really attentive to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the team\u2019s medical staff said \u201cthis is the best course of action. Let\u2019s just take two weeks and get him ready for the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morant, who has missed 17 games so far this season, will be reevaluated closer to the playoffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[22,15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-268057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","typology-infortunio","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268057"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=268057"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=268057"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=268057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}