Ja Morant scores 24 points in return to lineup as Grizzlies beat Magic 126-109 in London

LONDON (AP) — Ja Morant had 24 points and 13 assists in his return to the lineup to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 126-109 victory over the Orlando Magic on Sunday in the first NBA regular-season game in London since 2019.

Jock Landale added 21 points and 8 rebounds and Jaren Jackson Jr. had 17 points as Memphis avenged its 118-111 loss to Orlando in Berlin on Thursday in the first of their European doubleheader.

Orlando trailed by 33 points in the first half before reducing the deficit to 17 on Paolo Banchero's 3-pointer to make it 108-91 with 8:15 left in the fourth quarter. The Grizzlies closed it out from there.

Anthony Black led the Magic with 19 points and Wendell Carter Jr. added 18 points and 7 rebounds. Banchero finished with 16 on 7 of 20 shooting. He also had 9 assists and 8 rebounds.

Morant had missed six games because of a right calf injury and provided an immediate spark for a Grizzlies team that had lost seven of nine. The two-time All Star started and had 20 points and 10 assists in the first half.

Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo said in pregame comments that Morant would be on a minutes restriction. The star logged 28:24 minutes overall.

Magic forward Franz Wagner had 14 points in his second game back since missing five weeks with a high ankle sprain. Orlando was 10 of 33 from behind the arc.

The game at London's O2 Arena was the 10th regular-season game in the English capital. The first one was March 4, 2011.

Europe is set to host two more regular-season games in 2027. The host cities are Paris and Manchester, England. In 2028, Paris and Berlin will host games.

Magic: Host the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday.

Grizzlies: Host the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday.

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Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant reacts during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in London. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Orlando Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. (34) reaches for the ball as Memphis Grizzlies guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (3) and Memphis Grizzlies center Jock Landale (31) look on during the first half of NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in London. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Orlando Magic guard Anthony Black (0) collides with Memphis Grizzlies guard Vince Williams Jr. (5) during the first half of NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in London. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Orlando Magic forward Franz Wagner (22) drives around Memphis Grizzlies forward Santi Aldama (7) during the first half of NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in London. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (12) reacts during the first half of NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in London. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Orlando Magic forward Noah Penda, center, Memphis Grizzlies forward Cedric Coward, left and Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant, right, fight for the ball during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in London. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that his landslide victory in Uganda's election showed the dominance of his party, which has governed the East African country for four decades.

Museveni said a day after he was declared the winner that the result gave “a good taste of the strength” of his party, known as the National Resistance Movement.

Museveni, 81, has stayed in power over the years by rewriting the rules. The last legal obstacles to his rule — term limits and age restrictions — have been removed from the constitution, and some of his possible rivals have been jailed or sidelined.

Museveni took more than 71.6% of the vote while his closest challenger and Uganda’s most prominent opposition leader, Bobi Wine, took 24.7% of the vote, according to official results rejected by Wine as fake.

“The opposition are lucky,” Museveni said about his victory after low voter turnout in Thursday's election. “They have not seen our full strength.” Voter turnout stood at 52%, the lowest since Uganda's return in 2006 to multiparty politics.

Addressing the nation from his country home in western Uganda, where many dignitaries gathered to hear him speak publicly for the first time since his victory, Museveni said that he believed many of those who didn't vote were members of the governing party.

Wine, a musician-turned-politician whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, has the option of launching a legal challenge with the courts, which previously have refused opposition efforts to nullify Museveni’s victories while recommending electoral reforms.

Museveni, Africa's third-longest governing president, will serve a seventh term that would bring him closer to five decades in power. His supporters credit him for the relative peace and stability that makes Uganda home to hundreds of thousands fleeing violence elsewhere in the region.

In his speech, Museveni accused the opposition of trying to foment violence during voting. He urged religious leaders to reach out to young people who are likely to be misled into violence.

At least seven opposition supporters of a losing parliamentary candidate with Wine's party were killed by police after they attacked a polling station with machetes in the central district of Butambala, he said.

“Some of the opposition are wrong but also terrorists,” he said, calling Wine and others “traitors.”

Wine, 43, has previously rejected the charge as false, saying he represents the hopes of millions of young people yearning for political change after decades of the same leader.

On Sunday, Wine posted footage on the social platform X of what he said were alleged incidents of ballot stuffing and the intimidation of his representatives on the eve of voting. Authorities didn't immediately respond to those specific allegations.

Uganda's election was marred by a dayslong internet shutdown and the failure of biometric voter identification machines that caused delays in the start of voting in areas including Kampala, the capital. Wine has also alleged that stuffing ballot boxes happened in some areas seen as Museveni's strongholds.

The failure of biometric machines is likely to be a basis for any legal challenge to the official result.

The security forces were a constant presence throughout the election campaign, and Wine said that authorities followed him and harassed his supporters, using tear gas against them. He campaigned in a flak jacket and helmet because of security fears.

Museveni hasn't said when he will retire, and he has no rivals in the upper ranks of his party.

Veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye, a four-time presidential candidate, remains in prison after he faced treason charges that he says are politically motivated.

Uganda hasn't witnessed a peaceful transfer of presidential power since independence from British colonial rule six decades ago.

Uganda's security forces patrol a street as supporters of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni celebrate his victory in the presidential election in Kampala, Uganda, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Supporters of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni celebrate his victory in the presidential election in Kampala, Uganda, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A woman celebrates Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's victory in the presidential election in Kampala, Uganda, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, famously known as Bobi Wine of the National Unity Platform (NUP), arrives with his wife to cast their votes, during the presidential election at a polling station, in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Billboards of Uganda President and National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni are seen in Kampala, Uganda, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Samson Otieno)