{"id":439326,"date":"2025-04-25T08:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=439326"},"modified":"2025-04-25T08:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:11:57","slug":"ja-morant-goes-down-grizzlies-collapse-another-playoff-injury-for-memphis-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ja-morant-goes-down-grizzlies-collapse-another-playoff-injury-for-memphis-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant goes down, Grizzlies collapse: another playoff injury for Memphis&#8217; star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"592\">Ja Morant was leading the way for the Grizzlies in a dominant first half, helping build a <strong data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"283\">29-point lead<\/strong> over the Thunder. But everything changed with just over three minutes left before halftime, when Morant took a hard fall on his <strong data-start=\"412\" data-end=\"424\">left hip<\/strong> after colliding mid-air with Lu Dort. He tried to stay in the game to shoot his free throws but was visibly in pain and soon headed to the locker room \u2014 not to return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"955\">Without Morant, Memphis fell apart offensively, scoring just <strong data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"694\">31 points in the entire second half<\/strong>, and saw Oklahoma City pull off a historic comeback. It\u2019s yet another playoff injury for Morant, who has struggled to stay healthy in the postseason throughout his career. When he\u2019s on the floor, Memphis competes. When he\u2019s not, the collapse is often dramatic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"957\" data-end=\"1264\">Before leaving the game, Morant had <strong data-start=\"993\" data-end=\"1020\">15 points and 5 assists<\/strong> in 19 minutes. The team later confirmed a <strong data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1085\">left hip contusion<\/strong>, and his status for Game 4 \u2014 set for Saturday night \u2014 is uncertain. With the series now <strong data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1197\">3-0 in favor of OKC<\/strong>, the Grizzlies may be looking at an early exit without their star.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ja Morant received a standing ovation after taking a hard fall and coming back to shoot free throws before heading to the locker room in Game 3. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RvToQQ7fGs\">pic.twitter.com\/RvToQQ7fGs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1915598857708200160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Oh man. Ja Morant down on the court in pain after being undercut by Lu Dort. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MfQN5Xv79p\">pic.twitter.com\/MfQN5Xv79p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 eric (@EricTweetsNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricTweetsNBA\/status\/1915597223921955046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ja Morant was leading the way for the Grizzlies in a dominant first half, helping build a 29-point lead over the Thunder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":439325,"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":[179,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-439326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/GpWTAgYXAAABpAY.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439326","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=439326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439326"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=439326"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=439326"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=439326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}