The NBA will regret Ja Morant not playing on Christmas Day
Nine of the ten squads playing on the NBA’s biggest regular season stage of Christmas Day check a lot of boxes – market, success, superstar status, etc. But one squad is there that shouldn’t be – and they should’ve been replaced by Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies. Host Joe Mullinax breaks down a big year for the newly minted 25-year-old Morant, plus bids adieu to the Olympics and an era of gold for Team USA Basketball, on this episode of Locked on Grizzlies!
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The league seems to always be a year delayed regarding the matchups they choose for Christmas Day. I'm just praying for 65+ games played for all our starters🙏🏿😂🤞🏿 If that happens, we'll be playing on Christmas Day 2025.
As a Grizzlies fan I agree with Joe. I think if we were considered for a Christmas Day game us getting blown out in the last one didn’t help the cause. Unfortunate that was Bane’s first game back from injury and I think the first game that season of having all 5 starters. We just need to handle business this season and we will be back on Christmas.
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If the Grizzlies does as I expect this upcoming year we will not miss a Christmas game again for at least 10 years
“I’m happy to be mad again” lmaoooo never change joe
We did get smoked last time we played on Christmas.
This team plays better when given no respect
Thinking LeBron is better than Jordan is a mental illness.
I kinda like the lack of attention that we have been getting. It will only make us more focus and more determined. GO GRIZZLIES!
I am just as proud of the USA women's basketball team for bringing the gold home as well.
I'm a born and raised memphian. I love the memphis grizzlies, and I love watching this show and you guys takes, but you lost me with that jordan Lebron take. Ain't no way, Michael will always be the goat.
I love Ja just like any Grizz Fan but him and his generation has to learn that there are consequences when you do stupid things. I'm not happy he has to learn this lesson the hard way but I'm happy if he effectively learns what he needs to learn to maintin for himself and his family.
Putting Ja Morant and the Grizzlies in big prime time games is a huge gamble because they’re still a small market team, and we don’t really know if they’re going to be back on track this year. And we don’t know if it will be the Grizzlies or the Hustle wearing Grizzlies uniforms in December.
Jordan is MILES ahead of Lebron!
LOVE the Grizzlies and LOVE Ja, but when he is 29 he'll likely be a bench/rotation point guard then … a la Derrick Rose
oh btw to help clarify by what Joe meant when he said Ja struggled with health and "other things", that meant playing with guns.