{"id":386062,"date":"2025-11-17T21:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/386062\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:24:20","slug":"grizzlies-guard-ja-morant-calf-to-miss-saturday-matchup-vs-mavericks-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/386062\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (calf) to miss Saturday matchup vs. Mavericks in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/memphis-grizzlies\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>\u00a0announced Monday that two-time All-Star Ja Morant will miss at least two weeks with a strained right calf, including Saturday\u2019s game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/place\/cGVnYXN1czpwbGFjZQ-NA-TkE\/American-Airlines-Center\/page\/7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/place\/cGVnYXN1czpwbGFjZQ-NA-TkE\/American-Airlines-Center\/page\/7\/\">American Airlines Center<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Grizzlies provided the medical update after Morant hurt his calf over the weekend early in a loss at Cleveland and said Morant will be re-evaluated in approximately two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Morant scored seven points in six minutes before exiting with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/grizzlies-cavaliers-score-edey-f791c5e098f962394808eb92b229b5bb\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">right calf soreness.<\/a>\u00a0He missed the previous game Wednesday in Boston with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ja-morant-grizzlies-ankle-injury-9a6e8dbb4a37c50bf926e002c551e649\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a sore right ankle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Memphis visits San Antonio on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Mavericks fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Grizzlies just got center Zach Edey back in that loss at Cleveland. Memphis started the season with a handful of players out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/grizzlies-ty-jerome-calf-strain-fdea8222c1cb4d448b7d5db107f9a481\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">injured<\/a>\u00a0including shooting guard Ty Jerome (high-grade right calf strain), guard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/grizzlies-scotty-pippen-jr-0ff00e5fabe1a8bac2e7bca6ab969e77\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotty Pippen Jr.<\/a>\u00a0(left big toe) and Brandon Clarke (knee surgery).<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Memphis\u2019 thin guard depth prompted the Grizzlies to sign rookie Jahmai Mashack to a two-way contract Sunday. He was the 59th overall pick in the June draft and has been playing with the Memphis Hustle in the NBA G League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\"><b>Find more Mavericks coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 The Memphis Grizzlies\u00a0announced Monday that two-time All-Star Ja Morant will miss at least two weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,19491,10768,1596,3139,6650,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-386062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american-airlines-center","10":"tag-brief","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-mavericks","13":"tag-mavericks","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115567150046423682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}