With Morant Gone, Memphis Is All-In On Rookie Cameron Boozer

It didn’t take Memphis long to shut down the Ja Morant era: on Monday, they essentially gave him away, trading him to Portland for Jerami Grant and Kris Murray. They didn’t even get a second-round pick out of this.

What it underscores is how much faith they have in their star rookie, former Blue Devil Cameron Boozer.

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For his part, Boozer is embracing the focus, telling Chris Vernon on his show that “[w]e are a team who is going to really surprise people this year. We are going to be shockingly good to people. I think people don’t really understand that just because obviously it was kind of a rebuild, but you look at the players we have, the roster [and] who were are bringing in this year, and I think we are going to have something pretty special.”

One more question left to answer for Boozer: with Morant off to Portland, his number 12 is now available. Boozer had already taken #27, but there’s no real reason we know of why he couldn’t change it, except for the jerseys that have already been printed with #27.

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Publish date : 2026-06-30 12:00:00

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