{"id":1567,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1567","headline":"Ja Morant hurt in first game back against Grizzlies, out four weeks","dek":"The Trail Blazers guard suffered a grade two left hamstring strain against his former team and finished with 14 points and three assists before exiting.","body":"Ja Morant's first game against his old team did not end well. The Trail Blazers guard suffered a grade two left hamstring strain during Portland's Oct. 29 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, and the team announced on Oct. 30 that he is expected to be reevaluated in four weeks.\n\nMorant left the game in the fourth quarter and did not return, finishing with 14 points and three assists. It was his first time facing the Grizzlies since Memphis traded him to Portland in June in exchange for forwards Kris Murray and Jerami Grant, closing out a seven season run with the franchise that drafted him.\n\nThe night had plenty of buildup. A day before the game, Morant said he held no grudges against his former team. Once tipoff arrived, he opened with hot shooting in the first quarter and some trash talk aimed at the Grizzlies bench, before the hamstring injury cut his return short in the fourth.\n\nWith Morant sidelined for at least a month, the Trail Blazers will need to navigate the stretch without their new backcourt centerpiece.","published_at":"2026-10-30T22:05:00.494376+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Portland's Ja Morant injured in game vs Grizzlies, out four weeks","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/portlands-ja-morant-injured-game-185143327.html"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Morant, hurt against Grizzlies, to miss at least four weeks","url":"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50329588/ja-morant-least-four-weeks-injury-vs-grizzlies"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Ja Morant suffers Grade 2 hamstring injury, to miss at least 4 weeks","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7738923/2026/10/30/ja-morant-injury-hamstring-trail-blazers/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Blazers Announce Bad Injury News About Ja Morant","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/blazers-announce-bad-injury-news-072159452.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Ja Morant's first game against Grizzlies takes painful turn after Trail Blazers star exits","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ja-morants-first-game-against-111959475.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Trail Blazers' Ja Morant hit with brutal injury timeline after facing Grizzlies for first time","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/trail-blazers-ja-morant-hit-191600469.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Trail Blazers' Ja Morant out at least four weeks with hamstring injury","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/trail-blazers-ja-morant-least-191932852.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Trail Blazers receive bad news on Ja Morant after injury in Grizzlies game","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/trail-blazers-receive-bad-news-191945325.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Portland's Ja Morant to miss at least a month with left hamstring strain","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/portlands-ja-morant-miss-least-195649072.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Ja Morant injury: Trail Blazers star expected to miss at least four weeks with hamstring strain","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/ja-morant-injury-trail-blazers-star-miss-at-least-four-weeks-hamstring-strain/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBA Trail Blazers lose guard Morant for four weeks","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-trail-blazers-lose-guard-201113056.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Ja Morant could miss a month after straining left hamstring in Blazers' loss to Grizzlies","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ja-morant-could-miss-month-213034741.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}