{"id":16733,"date":"2023-12-27T07:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T04:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/16733\/grizzlies-ja-morant-named-player\/"},"modified":"2023-12-27T07:55:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T04:55:03","slug":"grizzlies-ja-morant-named-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=16733","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies&#8217; Ja Morant named player of week fresh off suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grizzlies&#8217; Ja Morant named player of week fresh off suspension\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant was named Western Conference player of the week Tuesday after leading a struggling Memphis team to its first three-game winning streak this season.<\/p>\n<p>Morant made his season debut last Tuesday against the New Orleans Pelicans, returning from a 25-game suspension with a 34-point performance, including a game-winning floater at the buzzer.  He had 20 points and 8 assists in his next game against the Indiana Pacers then 30 points and 11 assists against Atlanta on Saturday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He averaged 28.0 points, 9.0 assists and 5.7 rebounds in those three games.<\/p>\n<p>Morant was suspended after brandishing a gun in an Instagram Live <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/video\/\"   title=\"video\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">video<\/a> in May, two months after serving an eight-game suspension for a similar incident in March.  His absence had derailed the Grizzlies&#39; season, as they entered Morant&#39;s debut 6-19.<\/p>\n<p>However, the three-game winning streak since Morant&#39;s return has kept the Grizzlies within striking distance of the play-in tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Morant, 24, has won three player of the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a> awards during his career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grizzlies&#8217; Ja Morant named player of week fresh off suspension\u060c Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant was named Western Conference player of the week Tuesday after leading a struggling Memphis team to its first three-game winning streak this season. Morant made his season debut last Tuesday against the New Orleans Pelicans, returning from a 25-game suspension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[191,2561,6870,5053,25,644,9],"class_list":["post-16733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-fresh","tag-grizzlies","tag-morant","tag-named","tag-player","tag-suspension","tag-week"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16734,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions\/16734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}