{"id":525450,"date":"2026-01-18T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/525450\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:54:09","slug":"ja-morant-is-trending-to-be-in-vs-magic-in-london-grizzlies-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/525450\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant is ‘trending to be in’ vs Magic in London, Grizzlies coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \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

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\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<\/a>.<\/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

Iisalo was asked if he would use Morant off the bench: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant was \u201ctrending\u201d to play Sunday against the Orlando Magic and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":525451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3576,3135,1260,3121,62,187502,233441,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-525450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ja-morant","9":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-orlando-magic","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-the-grizzlies","14":"tag-tuomas-iisalo","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115916915591670153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525450","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=525450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}