{"id":479666,"date":"2026-01-19T08:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479666"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:03:57","slug":"ja-morant-returns-and-shuts-down-trade-talk-i-want-to-stay-with-the-memphis-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ja-morant-returns-and-shuts-down-trade-talk-i-want-to-stay-with-the-memphis-grizzlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant returns and shuts down trade talk: \u201cI want to stay with the Memphis Grizzlies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"1945\">Ja Morant posted <strong data-start=\"1654\" data-end=\"1682\">24 points and 13 assists<\/strong> in the Grizzlies\u2019 <strong data-start=\"1701\" data-end=\"1712\">126-109<\/strong> win over the Magic in London, returning after a <strong data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1773\">six-game<\/strong> absence due to a <strong data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"1805\">right calf<\/strong> injury.<br data-start=\"1813\" data-end=\"1816\" \/>The comeback delivered an immediate lift for Memphis, which snapped a rough stretch with only its third win in the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1947\" data-end=\"2211\">Morant tackled recent trade speculation head-on: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1997\" data-end=\"2027\">I\u2019ve got a logo on my back<\/strong>,\u201d he said, pointing to a Grizzlies tattoo as a clear sign of where he wants to be.<br data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2113\" \/>He added: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2124\" data-end=\"2148\">I\u2019m a very loyal guy<\/strong>,\u201d insisting there should be no doubt about his desire to stay.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2213\" data-end=\"2439\">He also described playing again as \u201c<strong data-start=\"2249\" data-end=\"2264\">therapeutic<\/strong>\u201d and appreciated the London crowd after missing the first Europe game in Berlin.<br data-start=\"2345\" data-end=\"2348\" \/>Morant is in Year 3 of a <strong data-start=\"2373\" data-end=\"2395\">five-year, $197.2M<\/strong> deal, earning about <strong data-start=\"2416\" data-end=\"2426\">$39.4M<\/strong> this season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2441\" data-end=\"2510\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ja Morant is back in the lineup in London, leading the Memphis Grizzlies past the Orlando Magic<\/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-479666","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","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479666","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=479666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479666\/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=479666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479666"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479666"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479666"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}