Ja Morant will miss the rest of the season due to a right shoulder injury, the Memphis Grizzlies reported this Monday in a statement. The Memphis franchise detailed that Morant suffered a subluxation in his right shoulder on Saturday during training.
With pain and instability in that area and after missing the Grizzlies’ game in Phoenix against the Suns on Sunday, an MRI determined that Morant has a torn labrum, which will take him to the operating room and will not play any more in what campaign subtraction.
Morant had just returned to competition after being suspended 25 games by the NBA, a sanction he served at the beginning of this season.
The point guard had returned to the field at an excellent level and had clearly raised his team’s performance, but this injury will prevent him from playing again after only nine games this season. Morant had averaged 25.1 points, 5.6 rebounds and 8.1 assists per game.
Beyond his individual statistics, the best example of Morant’s enormous influence as a whole is that in those nine games with him the Grizzlies shined with a 6-3 and in the rest of the games without their conductor Memphis crashed with a painful 7-20 (13-23 in total balance, right now outside the play-in positions of the West).
The Grizzlies will visit Luka Doncic’s Dallas Mavericks (22-15) on Tuesday.
