{"id":515556,"date":"2023-01-15T01:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=515556"},"modified":"2023-01-25T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:05:09","slug":"ja-morant-soars-through-the-air-for-electric-block-then-adds-dunk-of-the-year-on-jalen-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ja-morant-soars-through-the-air-for-electric-block-then-adds-dunk-of-the-year-on-jalen-smith","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant soars through the air for electric block, then adds dunk of the year on Jalen Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ja Morant has had a few highlight blocks in his career. He added another to his collection when he chased down Indiana Pacers rookie Bennedict Mathurin in the third quarter on Saturday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.Mathurin caught a transition pass and appeared to be one-on-one with Memphis Grizzlies center Steven Adams ahead of the pack. That was until Morant, who standing at the opposing 3-point line when the pass to Mathurin was made, ran down Mathurin and soared through the air while blocking the ball off of the backboard with his left hand.The play was initially called a goaltend, but Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins successfully challenged the call after Morant signaled that he had blocked the ball clean.Morant jumped so high on the block that his head had to dodge the rim. Maybe that&#8217;s why the referees initially called the play a goaltend.DESMOND BANE HEALTH UPDATE:Desmond Bane explains why he won&#8217;t be fully healthy until after the NBA seasonGREEN&#8217;S RETURN:Danny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ja Morant has had a few highlight blocks in his career. He added another to his collection when he chased down Indiana Pacers rookie Bennedict Mathurin in the third quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}