Ja Morant Rumors

The most notable change was former Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane being traded to the Orlando Magic. "I was shocked, personally," Morant said. "I got the message from Des. To see it all over the internet, I thought the (expletive) was fake, honestly. It's best for both sides. Des is going to a very talented Orlando team. I feel like he's the piece that they've been missing."

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Ja Morant Fan Page: Ja Morant Speaks saying that he's ready for the next season and keeping himself from injuries tryna make himself a Good fit for the next season to play HEALTHY and to obviously to WIN more Games and he also mentioned that he's working in the Lab saying "I'M ALREADY IN THE LAB"

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Along with Morant, Jackson has been a core member of the Grizzlies in recent years. Morant is one of the Grizzlies players who ahs challenged Jackson the most to reach his potential, often reminding him how hard it is for opponents to guard him. Now, Jackson will be rewarded with a new five-year deal. "He deserves it," Morant said. "That's the heart of Memphis, the heart of this team. I feel like he deserves it. I thought it would have been way more, honestly. I don't understand the cap stuff."

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Based on those charts, the best bets to reach $1 million per game first are players who will sign supermax deals after Gilgeous-Alexander, who was drafted in 2018. Among the 2019 draft class, Ja Morant is the only player to make an All-NBA team, and that was three years ago. It seems unlikely anyone in this draft class will qualify for the supermax. However, the 2020 draft class offers two top candidates for supermax qualification: Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Haliburton. It's unknown for Haliburton since he'll miss all of next season due to an untimely Achilles tear. But Edwards has made two All-NBA second teams in a row, putting him on track to sign a supermax in the summer of 2027, which could be worth up to four years and $345 million and rise above $82 million in the second season.

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Tee Morant: “I never gave Ja credit until he got drafted—for the simple fact that his goal was to make it to the NBA. His goal wasn’t to make it to college. His goal wasn’t to be the best scorer in high school. His goal was the NBA.” “So I felt like, as a parent, presently, I was there to help my kid—and my kids. It was crazy. This was one of the craziest moments of my life.”

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Kendrick Perkins: Do I think Memphis overpaid for Jaren Jackson Jr.? Absolutely they did. But we here now. We here now. Next they going to have to pay Ja Morant, right? So if Jaren Jackson Jr. got 240, Ja probably going to get close to 300. Okay. So you pay for those two. Can those two take you to a championship? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. And I believe Ja is one of one. I'm just not a believer in Jaren Jackson Jr. But he could prove me wrong. He could prove me wrong.

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Marc Stein: Jay Triano replaced new U of Utah coach Alex Jensen. Jared Dudley is a Memphis finalist and sought by Cleveland ... with league sources saying the Grizz seek a lead assistant who can forge a strong connection with Ja Morant. God Shammgod, as close as anyone in Dallas to Kyrie Irving, has strong interest from Orlando. More: http://tinyurl.com/34ecpwua

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Former Magic wing Kentavious Caldwell-Pope said in the latest episode of his Dawg Talk Podcast (YouTube link) that he got a heads-up he would be traded to the Grizzlies before the agreement was reported last Sunday, so he wasn’t caught off guard when the news broke on social media. And while it took him a little time to wrap his head around the idea of changing teams again just one year after signing with Orlando, the 32-year-old is enthusiastic about what he’ll be able to bring to his new club in Memphis. “The more I talked about it, the more I got excited,” Caldwell-Pope said, singling out Ja Morant, Jaren Jackson Jr., and Zach Edey as new teammates he’s looking forward to playing with. “A lot of the guys over there I know and I’m going to enjoy playing with. Seeing them, playing against them and the style that they have, I think it fits right into my game.”

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He also posted, “Instead of focusing on the performances we seen from Jdub/Shai [Jalen Williams and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander], Tj/Siakam [T.J. McConnell and Pascal Siakam], how this series is going,” Morant continued. “We say [something] negative about a city/team on a national level.” The tweet seemingly made it's way back to Stephen A. Smith, which prompted him to make a long post saying: “So this is what we’re doing now @JaMorant? I recall talking about the Finals. But the @memgrizz made news because of Bane getting traded. AND, your possible extension coming up. Would you prefer I go into detail about WTH has been going on in Memphis? Why players have stated they’re not interested in going? Or even MORE details? Or would you like me to leave well enough alone, and let the great peeps of Memphis address it on their own? Your call! I’m all ears!”

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Ja Morant: talkin bout the grizz more than the finals😂 wit these 🧢 ahh sources. Instead of focusing on the performances we seen from jdub/shai , tj/siakam, how this series is going . we say sumn negative about a city/team on a national level.

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The topic on the show “First Take” was about whether the team should move on from Morant, where Smith spoke about how the destination is not a “safe environment,” even saying that players have told him that. This garnered the attention of Morant, who took to X, formerly Twitter, and critiqued how the coverage is on the team rather than the current NBA Finals and even called out his “sources.” “Instead of focusing on the performances we seen from Jdub/Shai [Jalen Williams and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander], Tj/Siakam [T.J. McConnell and Pascal Siakam], how this series is going,” Morant continued. “We say [something] negative about a city/team on a national level.”

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Vincent Goodwill: I don't think I'm breaking news here, but in the middle of the whole Jimmy Butler saga last year, one name that multiple league sources had brought up to me was, ‘Hey, you might want to check on Ja Morant and Miami.’ I didn’t understand the iterations of it and I thought ‘This was gonna be a really complicated trade (A) because of Jimmy’s extension (B) because of Ja’s long money, and there was iterations of Ja and Desmond Bane being shipped out, which sounds like it could be true given Desmond Bane was just traded yesterday.

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Shams Charania: What we're going to see now, particularly at positions two through four, is a very defensively-oriented, defensive-minded strategy. A guy like Jaylen Wells might not be a household name yet, but he was a rookie of the year runner-up, and the Grizzlies have high hopes for him. I believe they see him as their starting two-guard of the future. If you have those aspirations, you need to make sure you're in a good place financially. You're talking about the second apron, the first apron. Having Desmond Bane on a max contract, along with Jaren Jackson’s big deal and Ja Morant’s max contract, makes team-building extremely difficult."

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