ESPN’s Tim MacMahon joins SportsCenter to detail the feeling around the Memphis Grizzlies organization surrounding Ja Morant’s wrist injury that he sustained in their Game 1 matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs.
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Lakers in 4
If he plays, that hand should have a giant target on it. Playoff ball. He should get hard-fouled on it, forced to go right, put him in pick & rolls with hard screens etc
😅🤣😆😆🤣😅😅🤣😆🤣🤣😅 this is just gamesmanship.
But it doesn't change a thing Vando or DS were able to slow Ja down very efficiently.
Lakers are currently training with Tyus and Ja in mind, so it doesn't really matter.🤷🤷
Having said that I'm truly happy to see that he is getting better, I hope he can play tomorrow.
Ty🙏
Players have been playing with broken fingers during the playoffs. Ja should be good to go and LA knows it. 💯
I want to know what he was thinking 😅 obviously he ain’t going to mentally be there with everything plus this now he’s done maybe next year
X-Rays clean?! Young fella get out there and play no excuses
Slap him on the hand and take the foul 1st play of the game
That's his glock shooting hand, boy better be careful playing on that.
He's done. They literally said last year Ja would return to the Warriors series after his injury. They just want to make Lakers have to have multiple plans, but he's done unless they want a guy out there with only one usable hand.
I think Ja will try to play and the Lakers are going to swipe at that hand all game…. How effective Ja can fight through pain and still be efficient is the real question, there is a level where you can’t fight through and you just can’t play. Lakers been catching injuries breaks all playoff lol… love it!
Lakers wouldn't mind if he doesn't play.. 😂
Yeah the optimism is he won’t be able to hold guns on IG til he heals
Lakers are better team regardless of if JA plays or not.
Ja gotta chill! Not everything gotta be a poster dunk! The way he went straight up at AD was reckless
With or without ja they losing this series lol
F morant
Either way Lakers in 4! Bring out the brooms 🧹🧹🧹
Hopefully Ja comes back so all these grizzlies meat riders can stop using injuries as an excuse every time they get eliminated in the playoffs lmao. Ain’t the NBA’s fault your core players are injury prone and soft AF 😂
If Grizz let Ja play…that franchise is insane and irresponsible
Whether Ja plays or not, the Lakers are fine in the west.
Ja shooting hand 😅😅😂😂
Ja's fine, once the swelling goes down ….
I wonder if he can still hold a gun.
If he can squeeze the trigger he can play 😂😂😂😫
These idiots at espn don’t know what their talking about I just watched a video earlier they literally said “I do not sense optimism in the Grizzlies locker room” lmao now a different reporter saying the complete opposite