{"id":484398,"date":"2026-02-19T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484398"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:36:53","slug":"ja-morant-sidelined-grizzlies-star-out-at-least-two-more-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ja-morant-sidelined-grizzlies-star-out-at-least-two-more-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant sidelined: Grizzlies star out at least two more weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1330\" data-end=\"1557\">Ja Morant will miss <strong data-start=\"1350\" data-end=\"1377\">at least two more weeks<\/strong> after spraining the ulnar collateral ligament in his <strong data-start=\"1431\" data-end=\"1445\">left elbow<\/strong> on <strong data-start=\"1449\" data-end=\"1466\">Jan. 21, 2026<\/strong>. The <strong data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1493\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> said his rehab is progressing, but he still feels discomfort.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1559\" data-end=\"1750\">The team added Morant will be <strong data-start=\"1589\" data-end=\"1618\">re-evaluated in two weeks<\/strong>. The two-time All-Star has played just <strong data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"1670\">20 games<\/strong> this season, averaging <strong data-start=\"1694\" data-end=\"1709\">19.5 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1711\" data-end=\"1726\">7.4 assists<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1731\" data-end=\"1747\">4.6 rebounds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1752\" data-end=\"2026\">Memphis also announced Kentavious Caldwell-Pope will have surgery <strong data-start=\"1818\" data-end=\"1830\">Thursday<\/strong> to address a misalignment in his <strong data-start=\"1864\" data-end=\"1886\">right pinky finger<\/strong>. A recovery timeline will follow the procedure; Caldwell-Pope is at <strong data-start=\"1955\" data-end=\"1969\">8.4 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1971\" data-end=\"1986\">2.7 assists<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1991\" data-end=\"2007\">2.5 rebounds<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"2011\" data-end=\"2023\">51 games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2028\" data-end=\"2100\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2028\" data-end=\"2058\">Source: <strong data-start=\"2037\" data-end=\"2057\">Associated Press<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies say Morant will be re-evaluated in 14 days as he continues recovering from a left elbow UCL sprain<\/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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-484398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"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\/484398","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=484398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484398\/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=484398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484398"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484398"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484398"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}