{"id":14334,"date":"2022-03-03T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/ja-morant-im-must-see-tv\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T12:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:33:01","slug":"ja-morant-im-must-see-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/ja-morant-im-must-see-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant: &#8220;I&#8217;m must-see TV&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"463\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ja-Morant-vs.-Miami-Heat-via-Memphis-Grizzlies-696x463.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ja-Morant-vs.-Miami-Heat-via-Memphis-Grizzlies-696x463.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ja-Morant-vs.-Miami-Heat-via-Memphis-Grizzlies-560x373.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Ja-Morant-vs.-Miami-Heat-via-Memphis-Grizzlies-scaled-e1646158062580.jpeg 697w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ja Morant\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Memphis Grizzlies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ja Morant has been making strides since entering the NBA in 2019. The 22-year-old point guard increased his scoring average this season by 8 points compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>He is averaging 27.6 points, 5.9 rebounds and 6.6 assists in 33.3 minutes per game for the Grizzlies this season. Morant\u2019s most recent performance received lots of attention.<\/p>\n<p>In the game against the Spurs he dropped 52 points and also made a number highlights. The video of his buzzer-beater against San Antonio broke the record of most views from an NBA video on Instagram.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MUST SEE: Ja Morant POSTER &amp; Buzzer Beater in Same Game \ud83d\ude2e\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-gCoypNdvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSheesh,\u201d Morant said, per Drew Hill of Daily Memphian. \u201cI\u2019m must-see TV. Me and my teammates. That\u2019s why I got 30 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Memphis Grizzlies Ja Morant has been making strides since entering the NBA in 2019. The 22-year-old point guard increased his scoring average this season by 8 points compared to last year. He is averaging 27.6 points, 5.9 rebounds and 6.6 assists in 33.3 minutes per game for the Grizzlies this season. Morant\u2019s most recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14336,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14334\/revisions\/14336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}