{"id":478535,"date":"2026-01-12T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478535"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:31:21","slug":"raptors-under-growing-pressure-to-make-a-major-trade-move-ja-morant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/raptors-under-growing-pressure-to-make-a-major-trade-move-ja-morant\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors Under Growing Pressure to Make a Major Trade Move (Ja Morant?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"519\">According to <strong data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"332\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Marc Stein<\/span><\/span><\/strong> of <em data-start=\"336\" data-end=\"352\">The Stein Line<\/em>, the <strong data-start=\"358\" data-end=\"399\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Toronto Raptors<\/span><\/span><\/strong> may be approaching a moment of \u201cwin-now pressure,\u201d potentially forcing the front office to pursue a high-profile trade.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"521\" data-end=\"969\">With the <strong data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"571\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/span><\/span><\/strong> reportedly open to discussing the future of <strong data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"657\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ja Morant<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, league dynamics could push Toronto to seriously explore a deal for the explosive guard. The Raptors have already been linked in the past to several star-level players, including <strong data-start=\"837\" data-end=\"878\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Trae Young<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"921\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Anthony Davis<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"968\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Domantas Sabonis<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"971\" data-end=\"1291\">However, not all options appear realistic. Davis is expected to remain sidelined until after the trade deadline, complicating any potential move. Meanwhile, the <strong data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1173\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sacramento Kings<\/span><\/span><\/strong> are reportedly uninterested in taking on the long-term contracts Toronto would need to include in a deal for Sabonis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1582\">Toronto showed its willingness to act aggressively last season by acquiring <strong data-start=\"1369\" data-end=\"1410\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Brandon Ingram<\/span><\/span><\/strong> at the trade deadline, and league observers believe a similar all-in approach could resurface if the front office feels the urgency to accelerate its competitive timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raptors Under Growing Pressure to Make a Major Trade Move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":478165,"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":[135],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-478535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/Ja_Morant_2021.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478535","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478535"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=478535"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=478535"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=478535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}