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Ja Morant is the most electric player in the NBA. He has transformed the Memphis Grizzlies into real threats in the West and changed their identity into shit-talkers trying to fight Shannon Sharpe sitting courtside because they want all the smoke or whatever. They were about to jump an 8-time NFL All-Star.
Last week, the Grizzlies beat the Indiana Pacers 112-100. At one point, Ja got into it with a Pacer because of course he did and one of Morant’s friends was escorted out of the arena.
Ja Morant and Andrew Nembhard got into it and eventually James Johnson got involved. Looks like Ja Morant’s friend Davonte Pack was escorted off the floor. pic.twitter.com/etvu1yIXHZ
— Damichael Cole (@DamichaelC) January 30, 2023
You’d assume this was the end of the conflict because it’s the NBA and no one ever actually wants to hurt each other. They want to come off tough for the cameras, which is fine. I, too, become a different person with a camera in my face.
Oh, and the consequences of fighting an NBA game aren’t worth it.
According to The Athletic, uh, things got more intense after the game.
Following a game between the Indiana Pacers and Memphis Grizzlies on Jan. 29 in Memphis, acquaintances of Grizzlies star Ja Morant aggressively confronted members of the Pacers traveling party near the team’s bus in the loading area of FedExForum, and later someone in a slow-moving SUV — which Morant was riding in — trained a red laser on them.
The two members of the traveling party who spoke to The Athletic said that they did not see who shined the laser from the SUV. They also don’t know if the laser was attached to a gun, but they believed it was. A Pacers security guard in the loading area at the time remarked: “That’s 100 percent a gun.”
“We felt we were in grave danger,” one person who was present said. The two sources who spoke to The Athletic requested anonymity because they fear retribution from those who confronted them. They said they considered filing a report with police but decided against it for the same reason.
Ja Morant is quickly turning into a lame.
Last month it was reported he beat up a teenager after the kid threw a basketball at him and now he’s making his friends surround opposing team buses to point guns with red laser pointer scopes to scare people.
There is nothing cornier than going out of your way to make other people believe you are dangerous while never actually fighting your own battles or intentionally escalating things with guns to prove some sort of point.
If Ja has a problem with the Pacers then he should handle that problem on the court against the Pacers. No on-court conflict should end with guns being pointed at the fucking team bus. I don’t care how annoyed you are about a blocking foul.
Also a high odds that Morant’s friends didn’t have guns and only pointed laser pointers to scare the Pacers which is just as lame.
The Grizzlies win against the Pacers was their first win following 5 straight losses and they’ve lost 3 straight games since so basically, the Grizzlies are spiraling out of relevancy and after one big win in the midst of nonstop losses, they act like they are the final big bad bosses of the NBA.
Ja Morant brings his friends and his dad to all the games to intimidate teams. Dillon Brooks is punching guys in the balls. Jaren Jackson might be getting fake blocks at home games because the organization is sending in inflated stats.
But I will continue to defend them until someone finally punches them in the face. Until then, we’ll just have to wait for them to get humbled in the playoffs via an embarrassing and inevitable first-round exit.
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