{"id":479380,"date":"2026-01-17T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479380"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:03:16","slug":"grizzlies-coach-tuomas-iisalo-ja-morant-has-a-good-chance-to-play-in-london-vs-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/grizzlies-coach-tuomas-iisalo-ja-morant-has-a-good-chance-to-play-in-london-vs-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo: Ja Morant has a \u201cgood chance\u201d to play in London vs Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1637\">The <strong data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1449\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> are optimistic <strong data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1478\">Ja Morant<\/strong> could return from a calf injury Sunday at the <strong data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1537\">O2 Arena<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1538\" data-end=\"1541\" \/>Memphis is keeping its focus on the rematch with the <strong data-start=\"1594\" data-end=\"1611\">Orlando Magic<\/strong>, downplaying trade noise.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1873\">Iisalo said there\u2019s a \u201cgood chance\u201d Morant plays after completing a full practice on Saturday, with a final check coming Sunday morning. \u201cThere are no guarantees\u2026 he\u2019s got to feel comfortable with how the calf feels,\u201d the coach added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1875\" data-end=\"2119\">Morant missed the Berlin opener of the NBA Europe series, a 118-111 loss, and NBA commissioner Adam Silver admitted disappointment because Morant \u201chas a tremendous following globally.\u201d The 26-year-old guard did not address media after practice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2121\" data-end=\"2423\">Asked about trade rumors, Iisalo stressed the team is \u201cfocused on doing the work,\u201d and called his relationship with Morant \u201cvery good.\u201d Jaylen Wells echoed the mindset: \u201cDoesn\u2019t really matter what happens on the outside,\u201d as Morant has missed six straight games and last played on Dec. 2 vs the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2425\" data-end=\"2488\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Source: <em data-start=\"2433\" data-end=\"2451\">Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies are optimistic Ja Morant could return from a calf injury Sunday at the O2 Arena<\/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-479380","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\/479380","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=479380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479380\/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=479380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479380"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479380"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479380"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}