{"id":436053,"date":"2025-04-01T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436053"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:44:04","slug":"nba-gm-doubts-ja-morants-playoff-ceiling-not-sure-he-can-win-even-one-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-gm-doubts-ja-morants-playoff-ceiling-not-sure-he-can-win-even-one-series\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA GM doubts Ja Morant\u2019s playoff ceiling: \u201cNot sure he can win even one series\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"842\">According to <em data-start=\"1209\" data-end=\"1215\">ESPN<\/em>, a <strong data-start=\"1219\" data-end=\"1232\">league GM<\/strong> said <strong data-start=\"1238\" data-end=\"1251\">Ja Morant<\/strong> isn\u2019t the kind of star who can win multiple playoff series: \u201cHe sells tickets, but he\u2019s always hurt and not a playoff leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"842\">Morant is reportedly <strong data-start=\"1400\" data-end=\"1411\">unhappy<\/strong> with his role this season, averaging career lows in <strong data-start=\"1464\" data-end=\"1507\">touches, touch time, dribbles per touch<\/strong>, and his worst <strong data-start=\"1523\" data-end=\"1553\">scoring average (22.4 PPG)<\/strong> since 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"861\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44480928\/no-one-was-same-page-memphis-grizzlies-shocking-firing-taylor-jenkins?utm_content=buffer9bf47&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\"><em data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"859\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous NBA GM believes Ja Morant can\u2019t lead a team deep in the playoffs and points to his injuries and usage dip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":375025,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Memphis-Grizzlies.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436053","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=436053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436053"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436053"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436053"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}