NBA: Blazers confirm Morant is out for a month

A grade two strain

The wait is over, and it is not short. Portland announced Friday that imaging on Ja Morant’s left hamstring showed a grade two strain. He will be re-evaluated in four weeks.

The guard got hurt during Thursday night’s game against Memphis, his first meeting with the team that traded him to Portland in June. He left in the fourth quarter and did not return.

Four weeks is a checkpoint, not a return date. If the re-evaluation goes cleanly, late November is the earliest he could be back. Any setback pushes that into December.

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What Portland loses

Morant had settled in quickly. He scored 23 on 9-of-13 shooting at the Lakers earlier in the week, and the Blazers were leaning on him to run the offense alongside Damian Lillard, who returned this season after missing all of 2025-26.

With Morant out, more of the ball handling lands on Lillard and Jrue Holiday for the next month.

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