Ja Morant Trivia
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59 free Ja Morant trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ja Morant was unranked by every recruiting service, discovered by accident in an auxiliary gym, and three years later was the number two pick in the NBA draft. This Ja Morant trivia quiz follows the whole arc: Dalzell and Sumter, South Carolina, his father Tee's tractor-tire jump drills, the AAU season alongside Zion Williamson, Crestwood High's scoring record, Murray State's Matt McMahon and James Kane, the first 20-and-10 season in NCAA history, the NCAA Tournament triple-double against Marquette and the OVC records that fell. Then the Grizzlies years: the 2019 draft, Rookie of the Year, the play-in win over Golden State, the first All-Star start, Most Improved Player, the franchise-record 52 points, the first playoff triple-double in Memphis history, the $193 million extension, the 2023 suspensions, the shoulder surgery, the coaching change, the injury-shortened 2025-26 season and the June 2026 trade to Portland. Forty-three questions run from easy for casual NBA fans to expert for people who follow the box scores. Every answer is checked against documented records rather than fan pages, so it works for a Grizzlies watch party or an NBA round.
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Q 01What is Ja's full given name?
Temetrius Jamel
Temetrius Jamel Morant goes by Ja for short. His father, Tee, filmed his games with a GoPro camera strapped to his head, hoping some college would finally ask for footage.
Q 02In which state was Morant born and raised?
South Carolina
South Carolina: Morant grew up in tiny Dalzell, where his parents turned a cracked concrete patch behind the house into a full court and ran workouts there for local kids.
Q 03Morant's father Tee was a high school teammate of which NBA great?
Ray Allen
Ray Allen and Tee Morant were teammates at Hillcrest High in Dalzell. Tee later shelved his own pro basketball hopes when Ja was on the way and went to work as a barber.
Q 04What did Tee Morant have young Ja jump on in their backyard to build his leaping ability?
Tractor tires
Tractor tires: Ja jumped on them dozens of times after every drill, and years later Nike modeled the traction pattern of his second signature shoe on those backyard tires.
Q 05Which future number one pick was Morant's AAU teammate for a season with the Hornets grassroots team?
Zion Williamson
Zion Williamson and Morant shared one summer on a small team with no shoe-company backing; recruiters took notice of Williamson then, while Morant's only offers before Murray State came from lesser-known programs.
Q 06Murray State, where Morant played two college seasons, is in which state?
Kentucky
Kentucky: Murray is a small town in the state's southwestern corner, yet by Morant's second season dozens of NBA scouts were making the trip there to watch him.
Q 07The 2019 award Morant won as the nation's top college point guard is named for which NBA legend?
Bob Cousy
Bob Cousy: the Hall of Fame names an award for each college position after a great who played it, which is why West, Erving and Malone honor shooting guards, small forwards and power forwards.
Q 08Murray State assistant James Kane discovered Morant in a side gym in 2016 after leaving the main court to find what?
A snack
A snack: Kane bought chips at the concession stand, heard a ball bouncing in the auxiliary gym and found Morant playing three-on-three. He phoned the Racers' head coach to say the kid would be a pro.
Q 09Which future LSU coach was Morant's head coach at Murray State?
Matt McMahon
Matt McMahon had the Morants over for dinner on their campus visit; Ja pretended to feel overheated, slipped into the bathroom and came out in a Murray State T-shirt to say he was coming.
Q 10Murray State competed in which league during Morant's two seasons there?
The Ohio Valley Conference
The Ohio Valley Conference: Morant was named MVP of its 2019 tournament, where a 77-65 win over top-seeded Belmont in the final sent the Racers to March Madness.
Q 11The day before drafting Morant in 2019, Memphis agreed to trade away which point guard, its all-time leading scorer?
Mike Conley
Mike Conley's 12 seasons in Memphis ended with that deal, and the job passed straight to Morant, who started every game he played in his first NBA season.
Q 12As a sophomore, Morant became the first player in NCAA records to average what?
20-plus points and 10-plus assists
20-plus points and 10-plus assists: he averaged 24.5 and 10.0, and he counts as the first because assists only became an official NCAA statistic in 1983-84.
Q 13Morant scored 40 points against SIU Edwardsville in January 2019 without missing a single what?
Free throw
Q 21Morant scored 47 in Game 2 of his first playoff series, a 2021 loss to which top-seeded team?
Utah Jazz
Utah Jazz: Memphis had stolen Game 1 on the road, but Morant's 47 in the next game were not enough, and the top seed closed out the series in five.
Q 22Morant set a Grizzlies record with 52 points in February 2022 against which team?
San Antonio Spurs
San Antonio Spurs: Morant made 22 of 30 shots and all four of his threes, breaking a team scoring record he had set himself only two nights earlier.
Q 23Whose Grizzlies record for points in a regular-season game did Morant break with 46 in February 2022?
Mike Miller
Free throw: he missed nine of his 17 shots from the field that night but went 21 for 21 at the line, a conference record for one game.
Q 14Morant's 2019 NCAA Tournament triple-double came against which fifth-seeded team?
Marquette
Marquette: Morant had 17 points, 11 rebounds and 16 assists as the 12th-seeded Racers won by 19, the tournament's first triple-double since Draymond Green's in 2012.
Q 15Which fourth-seeded team ended the Racers' 2019 tournament run in the second round?
Florida State
Florida State won 90-62 despite Morant's 28 points. It proved to be his last college game: eleven days later he declared for the NBA draft.
Q 16Morant was picked at which spot in the 2019 NBA draft?
Second overall
Second overall: Memphis had gone into the draft lottery with only a 6.3 percent chance of landing that pick, then used it on Morant.
Q 17Which Hall of Fame tight end had a courtside shouting match with Morant and his father at a 2023 Lakers game?
Shannon Sharpe
Shannon Sharpe had been trading words with Dillon Brooks from his courtside seat. Security stepped in at halftime, yet he and Tee Morant made up with a hug before the night was over.
Q 18Against which team did Morant make his NBA debut on October 23, 2019?
Miami Heat
Miami Heat: Morant scored 14 in a 120-101 loss, but three weeks later his layup with 0.7 seconds left beat Charlotte with nearly 100 friends and family in the stands.
Q 19Which award did Morant win at the end of the 2019-20 season?
NBA Rookie of the Year
NBA Rookie of the Year: Morant took 99 of the 100 first-place votes, and Memphis rapper Moneybagg Yo later named a song after the award for a documentary series about him.
Q 20Which team did Morant's Grizzlies beat in overtime in the 2021 play-in to claim the West's last playoff spot?
Golden State Warriors
Golden State Warriors: Morant scored 35 and sealed the 117-112 road win with two driving floaters in the final minute of overtime.
Mike Miller's 45 had stood as the mark since 2007. Morant's 46 lasted only two nights before he broke the record again himself.
Q 24In 2021-22, Morant collected which award and which first-time selection?
Most Improved Player and first All-NBA Team
Most Improved Player and first All-NBA Team: voted to the Second Team, he gave the improvement trophy to teammate Desmond Bane, writing that Bane deserved it.
Q 25In 2021-22 Morant's Grizzlies won their first ever what?
Southwest Division title
Southwest Division title: a year after needing the play-in to claim the West's last playoff spot, Memphis won 56 games and finished first in its division.
Q 26Morant posted the Grizzlies' first playoff triple-double in a 2022 comeback from more than 20 points down against which team?
Minnesota Timberwolves
Minnesota Timberwolves: Memphis outscored them 37-12 in the fourth quarter of Game 3, and two games later Morant's layup with one second left decided Game 5.
Q 27Which two players did Morant join in 2022 with multiple 45-point playoff games before turning 23?
Kobe Bryant and LeBron James
Kobe Bryant and LeBron James: Morant matched them with a 47-point Game 2 in the second round, scoring the Grizzlies' final 15 points while struggling to see out of his left eye.
Q 28Morant's 2022 extension would reach $231 million if he did what the next season?
Made All-NBA
Made All-NBA: the raise hinged on a 2022-23 selection, and when he missed the cut it cost him nearly $40 million over the five years.
Q 29Whose Grizzlies record for career triple-doubles did Morant pass in December 2022?
Marc Gasol
Marc Gasol collected his five across 11 seasons in Memphis; Morant tied him against the Knicks and passed him ten days later, early in only his fourth season.
Q 30After a knee injury ended his 2022 playoffs, Morant tweeted that which opposing player "broke the code"?
Jordan Poole
Jordan Poole reached in on a steal attempt and, Memphis's coach said, yanked Morant's knee. The tweet threw back a phrase Poole's coach had used about a Memphis foul days earlier, and Morant later deleted it.