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Ja Morant
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American basketball player (born 1999)
Key facts
- Position
- Point guard
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1999-08-10 ) August 10, 1999 (age 26) , Dalzell, South Carolina , U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
- Listed weight
- 174 lb (79 kg)
- High school
- Crestwood ( Sumter, South Carolina )
- College
- Murray State (2017–2019)
- Nba draft
- 2019 : 1st round, 2nd overall pick
- Drafted by
- Memphis Grizzlies
- Playing career
- 2019–present
- 2019 present
- Memphis Grizzlies
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Dalzell
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- Murray State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Memphis Grizzlies
- Position played
- point guard
- Mass
- 79.37
- Image
- Ja Morant 2021.jpg
- Height
- 188
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- date of birth
- 1999-08-10
- birth name
- Temetrius Jamel Morant
- drafted by
- Memphis Grizzlies
- start of work period
- 2019-00-00
- name in native language
- Ja Morant
- Commons category
- Ja Morant
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Encyclopedic overview
Temetrius Jamel Morant (/ˈdʒɑː məˈrænt/ JAH mə-RANT; born August 10, 1999) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Murray State Racers, where he was a consensus first-team All-American as a sophomore in 2019.
Morant was only lightly recruited by NCAA Division I programs and unranked by recruiting services, despite having been named All-Region Most Valuable Player three times and earning All-State honors at Crestwood High School in Sumter, South Carolina. Nevertheless, he made an immediate impact at Murray State University, earning first-team all-conference honors in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) as a freshman. He had a breakout sophomore season; it saw him win OVC Player of the Year as well as lead the NCAA in assists. As a sophomore, Morant became the first player in NCAA history to average 20-plus points and 10-plus assists per game for a single season.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ja Morant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.