[Charania] No breaks or fractures in Grizzlies star Ja Morant’s right hand, sources say. His status remains up in air for Game 2 vs. Lakers with what’s believed to be a significant pain tolerance injury. Reporting from Run It Back on @FanDuelTV:
No breaks or fractures in Grizzlies star Ja Morant's right hand, sources say. His status remains up in air for Game 2 vs. Lakers with what's believed to be a significant pain tolerance injury. Reporting from Run It Back on @FanDuelTV: pic.twitter.com/MKqhnPamfY
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 18, 2023
by Frank_Vogel
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He’s playing
Everyone plays against the Lakers
Blows my mind that you couldn’t even tell where the impact was on Herro’s injury, but that broke two fingers and Ja’s hand literally bent in opposite directions and nothing happened. Physics is crazy.
thats good news for them at least.
Even if Ja doesn’t play I expect our team to fuck around and lose the game
He’s probably playing, worst case he misses game 2 but is back the rest of the series
Ja Morant when game 2 comes around
That’s good. I wish injury on no one. Lakers fans know he’ll be back for game 2 though. Everybody suddenly becomes healthy when they play us
He needs to play
Hoping for an injury-free postseason 🙏
I hope Ham and the staff are smart enough to test Ja’s hand. Give him the Westbrook/Ben Simmons treatment and see if he’s even capable of shooting a three right now
I hate to see injuries to any player. Especially when it is meaningful games like the playoffs. Good sign nothing is broken.
Ja is tough to play through this. Can’t hate on him. Kobe would do the same shit for us. Let’s get this dub with him playing or not.
Make him a shooter. I’m sorry but a hand injury doesn’t heal like that, and his shooting is almost certainly going to be in the gutter. Dare him HARD to shoot for at least the next few games.
Even if he plays I can’t see him really being able to shoot or dribble without any discomfort? We still don’t know that there isn’t any structural damage, just that there isn’t any fracture
Good for him nothing is broken. I think he gives it a go. But I am interested to see how he adapts. His aggression and well, recklessness is one of the more exciting parts of the game today.
Im curious to see what Ja Morant looks like if he can’t throw caution to the wind. And also concerned for him if he doesn’t adapt.
watch this dumbass do some more dumbass shit in the next game
I think he is more injured than they are letting on. They just want to keep Lakers guessing…everyone is looking for some kind of edge rt now.
I bet he plays but is pretty bad. Going to have a hard time dribbling and shooting we need to exploit that. Probably less Vando minutes.
We already knew that was the case when the xray’s came back negative didn’t we???
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I think his injury is very serious, I sprained my wrist in a similar action to Ja but less severe and I wasn’t able to shoot properly until 2 weeks had passed. In 3 days, he won’t even be able to lift a basketball in his hand.
Obviously, he has NBA level medical attention and recovery but I still doubt he could even dribble with his right hand.
Sometimes a sprain is worst than a break with the wrist. Happy he didn’t break anything but if he plays he’s going to be extremely limited. Anyway let’s get this dub tomorrow
I feel like he will take today off and will be available for game 3. I feel the grizzlies feel confident they can come back from 0-2 against us
Glad to hear it, injuries fucking suck
He says the hand feels worse than the first injury. 🤨
It’s the Lakers, he’s going to heal up and play.
Has to be some kind of Ligament sprain of some sort. An MRI would be helpful in this case.
he needs to weigh all options tbh and make sure it wont get worse and potentially jeopardise his career
Ligaments and tendons are good to go too? Damn. Lucky guy. Herro got it much worse. Crazy human bodies.
This injury seems like it could impact his ability to play the air guitar after meaningless first half buckets…
Left hand it like Kobe
Better if we’re evenly matched…
I think it’s better Ja plays. They play fine W out him, especially with their 3pt shooting #s. I think if he goes out there hurt and can’t do much w. That hand it benefits the Lakers more than him being out.