Trade Radar · open rumor · Thursday, October 29 · 2 d ago

Southwest Notes: Morant, Jones, Sengun, Flagg

via hoopsrumorsRead the original report ↗

Ja Morant is getting ready to face off against the Grizzlies team that drafted him and that he spent his entire career with prior to this season, as the Trail Blazers travel to Memphis on Thursday for their matchup. Despite some public disagreements in the past, he’s not coming in with hard feelings, Jason Quick […]

Confidence

44%

Reporter starting tier	45	unattributed report
Corroboration	+0	nobody else has reported this yet
Age	−2	2 days old · a rumor loses 1.2 points a day, up to 25

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Who it involves

Ja Morant

Trail Blazers · G · 19.5 pts · 3.3 reb · 8.1 ast

Cap hit 2026-27: $42.17M · next season $44.89M

Memphis Grizzlies

$161.1M · under the cap · 22 contracts · cap sheet

Portland Trail Blazers

$192.1M · over the cap · 15 contracts · cap sheet

What would have to happen

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Ja Morant → Grizzlies

Send out at least $33.53M

The Grizzlies are under the cap, so to take on $42.17M they need to send out $33.53M or more under the 125% + $250k rule.

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