MEMPHIS – At first, their bond was sealed only by basketball.
Ja Morant and Tyus Jones both play the same point guard position, and they both settled into Memphis around the same time last summer to start the next chapter of their NBA journey.
Both are now committed to guiding the Grizzlies through the uncertainties ahead in Orlando’s NBA “bubble” among 22 teams hoping to secure a playoff spot with the season set to resume. But Morant and Jones are also now united by much harder realities of leaving Memphis behind.