{"id":482446,"date":"2026-02-05T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482446"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:09:44","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-in-talks-with-grizzlies-for-ja-morant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/milwaukee-bucks-in-talks-with-grizzlies-for-ja-morant\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves, Heat remain in the Giannis mix, but the Bucks are also eyeing a Ja Morant angle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1931\" data-end=\"2292\">According to <strong data-start=\"1944\" data-end=\"1960\">Jake Fischer<\/strong> in <em data-start=\"1964\" data-end=\"1980\">The Stein Line<\/em>, <strong data-start=\"1982\" data-end=\"2012\">The Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2017\" data-end=\"2035\">The Miami Heat<\/strong> are still viewed as being \u201cin play\u201d for <strong data-start=\"2076\" data-end=\"2101\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> ahead of the deadline. Even so, there\u2019s widespread belief around the league that <strong data-start=\"2183\" data-end=\"2206\">The Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> may ultimately keep Giannis through the cutoff.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2294\" data-end=\"2640\">That reluctance, per the same report, has Milwaukee exploring ways to upgrade around its star, and one option being weighed is a pursuit of <strong data-start=\"2434\" data-end=\"2447\">Ja Morant<\/strong>. In that scenario, <strong data-start=\"2467\" data-end=\"2492\">The Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> could entertain a return built around shorter contracts and role players as they lean into a reshaping phase.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2642\" data-end=\"2835\">The situation remains volatile right up to the buzzer, with <em data-start=\"2702\" data-end=\"2718\">The Stein Line<\/em> framing deadline day as a live-moving landscape for multiple headline names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news from Jake Fischer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":429493,"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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-482446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/Ja-Morant.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482446","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=482446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482446"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482446"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482446"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}