Ja Morant’s height is 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m or 188 cm). Ja, who was born on 10 August 1999 and is currently 24 years old, is taller than the average American male whose height is put at 5 feet 9 inches.
While he is not the tallest man out there, he has a very good height that has made it possible for him to succeed as a basketball player in the NBA. He has not only leaned on his height in his career to have a great body but has also been involved in various workout routines and dieting which have continued to help him.
Ja Morant’s Height Is 6 Feet 2 Inches
Ja Morant’s height stands at an incredible 6 feet 2 inches which when converted to meters, records 1.88 meters. While this is the official height that is recorded for him with the Grizzlies team, it is not the height he used while playing for the Murray States University team. His official record there indicated that he was 6 feet 3 inches.
Temetrius Jamel “Ja” Morant, who was born on 10 August 1999 and is now 24 years old, has finished growing tall. This is because most men stop growing tall when they get to 18, while others stop at the age of 21.
The Dalzell, South Carolina native got his amazing height from his parents, Tee Morant and Jamie Morant. Tee Morant is a former basketball player who played high school basketball at Hillcrest before going on to play at Clafin University. With a height of over 6 feet and a strong talent, Ja Morant’s father wanted to pursue a professional basketball career but decided against it after his wife became pregnant with Ja.
The mother of the basketballer, Jamie Morant, is not a very tall woman on her own, as she is about 5 feet 10. That said her height was still good enough to have her play high school basketball. More so, she passed the DNA of tallness to her son, looking at her own father who is a tall man believed to be over 6 feet tall.
There Have Been Some Discrepancies in Ja Morant’s Height
While the height of Ja Morant is listed on the Grizzlies team roster as 6.2 inches, the guard has not always been listed that way. Before joining the team, his stats during his playing days in college, his states on the official college’s site read 6 feet 3 inches in height. Prior to that, his height when he was in high school also read 6 feet 3 inches.
The discrepancies may be a result of a policy introduced by the NBA that prohibits shoes and socks when measuring height. This may be the only explanation as to why he maintained a 6 feet 3 inches height before joining the NBA but lost an inch after he made the move.
Ja Morant’s Height When Compared To The Average Height For Basketballers
The average height of males in the United States, as stated, is 5 feet 9. However, it goes even higher for a player in the NBA. The average height at that level is put at 6 feet 6 inches. This means that with his height of 6 feet 2 inches, he is a short man in terms of basketball. However, he falls just well for the average size of a point guard, which is 6 feet 3 inches.
Placing him against the tallest basketball player in the NBA today, Sudanese-American baller, Manute Bol who stands at an incredible height of between 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) and 7 feet 7 inches (2.31 m), Ja Morant is more than 1 feet 4 inches shorter.
He is slightly taller than the shortest player in the NBA right now, Jacob Gilyard who also plays for the Memphis Grizzlies. Jacob’s height is officially put at 5 feet 9 inches. This gives Morant some inches advantage over his teammate.
In spite of his height against many other basketball players currently playing in the NBA, Morant was able to break a 1984-85 record set by Michael Jordan more than a decade before Morant was born. Morant broke the record in his rookie year when he recorded an incredible four rebounds and four assists to help his side to defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Another incredible thing about the player is that he has an incredible vertical jump which is placed at 44 inches, exceeding the average in the NBA, even for players much taller than him. In 2022, he did a vertical box jump of 62 inches, which is on another level entirely.
Ja Morant’s Height Compared To His Teammates in The Grizzlies
According to Lines, the average height of a player in the Memphis Grizzlies team is 199.8 cm, which translates to more than 6 feet 5 inches.
Although the team does not have any 7 feet players, it currently has three 6 feet 11 inches players on its current roaster; Steve Adams, Santi Aldama, and Jaren Jackson Jr. These men give Morant more than 9 inches of height difference.
While the team has no 6-foot-10 players, it has several 6 feet 9, who stand more than 6 inches above Ja Morant; Gregory Jackson II, Isiah Todd, and Ziaire Williams. Players that are at least 5 inches taller than Ja on the Grizzlies team are Brandon Clarke, Kenneth Lofton Jr., and Xavier Tillman who stand at 6 feet 8 inches. Jake LaRavia and Tarik Biberovic are the only 6-foot-7 players on the team, which means they are at least 4 inches taller than Morant.
Vince Williams Jr. is the team’s only Grizzlies current player who is 6 feet 6 inches tall. Others who are taller than Ja Morant are David Roddy, John Konchar, Luke Kennard, and Desmond Bane who are all 6 feet 5 inches; Marcus Smart and Josh Christopher who are 6 feet 4, and then the power guard, Derrick Rose who is 6 feet 3 inches tall.
The only player in the Grizzlies team that Ja Morant is taller than is Jacob Gilyard who as indicated has a height of 5 feet 9 inches.
Ja Morant’s Weight and Workout Routine
To complement Ja Morant’s height of over 6 feet 2 inches, the NBA star has a body weight of 174 lbs or 79 kg. This makes him the second lowest weighted on his team only after Gilyard. In spite of this, the player has been able to build a great athletic body decorated with 6 packs.
He has a very easy workout routine which has assisted him in having a great body and becoming a successful player in the NBA thus far. As a point guard, he follows various routines that would help his playing abilities and also his body build.
His daily routine includes form shooting, dribbling, ball handling, and weight training another other things. His routines include seated cable row, cable barbell curls, pull-ups, cable hammer curls with ropes, cable one-arm triceps extension, and push-ups. Each of these is done in at least 3 sets of 10 to 12 reps.
Other things he does are high-intensity interval training, lower abs workout, cardio workout, core workout, dumbbell squats, step-ups, and many more.
Is Ja Morrant on a Diet?
As regards the diet routine of the NBA player, he tries to keep healthy with whatever he eats. Because of this, he focuses on eating carbs before his games or whenever he wants to practice.
His breakfast is mostly made of juice, chicken sausage, avocado toast, as well as spinach and tomato omelet. He has protein smoothies for snacks and then for lunch, Morant mostly diets on rice, sautéed veggies, and grilled chicken.
As the evening draws near, his snack is claimed to be salmon salad while his dinner is cod, herbs, and more salad.
