{"id":39784,"date":"2025-04-25T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/nba-playoffs-morant-on-crutches-as-grizzlies-blow-29-point-lead-against-thunder\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:13:11","slug":"nba-playoffs-morant-on-crutches-as-grizzlies-blow-29-point-lead-against-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/nba-playoffs-morant-on-crutches-as-grizzlies-blow-29-point-lead-against-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs: Morant on crutches as Grizzlies blow 29-point lead against Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Oklahoma City lead best-of-seven series 3-0<\/li>\n<li>Knicks and Clippers also win on Thursday night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chet Holmgren scored all but one of his 24 points in the second half and the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a 29-point deficit after Ja Morant left the game with a hip injury to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 114-108 for a 3-0 series lead.<\/p>\n<p> Morant was hurt with just over three minutes left in the first half on Thursday night with Memphis leading 67-40. The Grizzlies led by 26 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Morant was later seen on crutches in the tunnel with what was described as a left hip contusion. Grizzlies interim coach Tuomas Iisalo said he was unsure if the two-time All Star would be available for Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/25\/nba-playoffs-morant-on-crutches-as-grizzlies-blow-29-point-lead-against-thunder\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City lead best-of-seven series 3-0 Knicks and Clippers also win on Thursday night Chet Holmgren scored all but one of his 24 points in the second half and the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a 29-point deficit after Ja Morant left the game with a hip injury to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 114-108 for a &#8230; <a title=\"NBA playoffs: Morant on crutches as Grizzlies blow 29-point lead against Thunder\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/nba-playoffs-morant-on-crutches-as-grizzlies-blow-29-point-lead-against-thunder\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA playoffs: Morant on crutches as Grizzlies blow 29-point lead against Thunder\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}