{"id":704562,"date":"2026-01-18T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/704562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:18:11","slug":"ja-morant-is-trending-to-be-in-vs-magic-in-london-grizzlies-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/704562\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant is ‘trending to be in’ vs Magic in London, Grizzlies coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant was \u201ctrending\u201d to play Sunday against the Orlando Magic and would be on a minutes restriction after a six-game absence because of a right calf injury.<\/p>\n

Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo said at a pregame news conference that the medical update he’s received about the two-time All Star was positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything that\u2019s been told to me is that he\u2019s good to go,\u201d Iisalo said.<\/p>\n

Morant missed the first of the two-game NBA Europe series when the Magic beat the Grizzlies 118-111 in the league’s first regular-season game in Germany.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Sunday at London’s O2 Arena.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s trending to be in \u2014 in the game,\u201d Iisalo said. “Obviously he has to go though his shootaround slot. We’ve discussed this several times this season, when you miss a bunch of games, it’s not so easy to (go) right away into big minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ll try to maximize his minutes and try to do it in a smart way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Memphis<\/p>\n

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant looks on from the bench in the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Phoenix Suns Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. Credit: AP\/Brandon Dill<\/p>\n

Iisalo was asked if he would use Morant off the bench: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant was \u201ctrending\u201d to play Sunday against the Orlando Magic and would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,112088,12056,111939,16,15,34242],"class_list":["post-704562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wires-bot"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115917010106324812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}