X-Rays Negative For Ja Morant, Questionable For Game 2

The Memphis Grizzlies had a tough go within the 4th quarter of Sunday’s sport towards the Los Angeles Lakers, however they acquired some reliving information relating to Ja Morant after the competition was over.

Sport 1 of their sequence towards LeBron James and firm was a aggressive one, till the fourth quarter, no less than. Memphis was enjoying short-handed after the accidents to their entrance courtroom gamers, and can be so long as they continue to be within the postseason.

X-Rays For Ja Morant Come Again Detrimental

Ja Morant headed to the locker room with an obvious damage after this play. pic.twitter.com/MZOrSN9Tmz

— ESPN (@espn) April 16, 2023

However they have been in a position to maintain their very own throughout the first a part of the sport, and have been really main by 6 going into half-time. However due to Rui Hachimura and Austin Reeves, the Lakers got here storming again within the third quarter and have been finally in a position to put the sport away for good.

And whereas the house loss to the seventh seed is a tricky approach to begin the postseason for the Grizzlies, it may have been an entire lot worse after the damage to famous person participant Ja Morant.

Halfway via the fourth quarter and simply earlier than the Lakers started to tug away, Morant was doing his finest to get his workforce again into the sport. The Grizzlies have been down by 4 with slightly below 6 minutes to play when Morant drove to the basket and collided with Anthony Davis close to the basket.

Morant turned parallel with the bottom, and dropped hands-first from about 7 toes up within the air. The gradual movement replay reveals his hand and fingers enduring a ugly bend, which he clutches afterward whereas writhing in ache.

Morant Questionable For Sport 2 On Wednesday

Ja Morant says his standing for Sport 2 is “in jeopardy.” He was downtrodden and never even in a position to make use of his proper hand to undo a balled-up pair of socks. “Feels prefer it’s one factor after one other.”

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) April 16, 2023

Morant was completed for the day, and the remainder of the Grizzlies workforce apparently determined that they have been completed, too. In about 5 minutes of sport clock, the Lakers turned a 4-point lead into the 16-point margin of victory that they completed the sport with.

The Sport 1 loss is hard for Memphis, however dropping Morant for an prolonged time period would very seemingly imply the top of their probabilities at profitable a lot of something for the remainder of the season.

However fortunately for Ja Morant and the Grizzlies, post-game x-rays on his hand got here again adverse, which means that he prevented any long run harm. There may be, nevertheless, a concern that he’ll be unavailable for Sport 2. The damage might not maintain him out for the season, however there may be sufficient ache to place his standing into query for the quick time period.

Sport 2 is scheduled for Wednesday evening in Memphis.