How dumb is this guy? Memphis Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant has been indefinitely suspended by the team and his Nike shoe line has been pulled from all company advertising as he was seen recklessly flashing a gun again.
Some people really do need everything taken away from them to see their error of their ways.
Ja Morant has been indefinitely suspended by the Memphis Grizzlies as NBA commissioner Adam Silver mulls an appropriate, deterring punishment for the superstar as he was seen flashing another gun in a video, despite getting suspended 8 games two months ago for a similar incident. And, regardless of what the fools on T.V. say, Ja Morant should be punished harshly for this latest transgression.
Just putting aside the ramifications of acting like a fake gangster while being an NBA megastar, an endorsed client of both Nike and Powerade, being a supermax player set to earn $194M across the next 5 years, and being a role model to millions of young NBA fans (and especially those in the Midwest and Tennessee) for a moment, Morant should be suspended for lying and betraying commissioner Adam Silver.
It was literally two months ago Morant sat face-to-face with Silver and vowed to change his ways after getting busted for the gun video in Denver.
However, after a lenient 8-game suspension (considering the suspensions of years past with players caught using guns recklessly) and a week of “treatment” for his behavior, Morant gave a huge middle finger to the commissioner by spending his free time aimlessly driving around with his “friends” (more like career suicide vests) and dancing with guns on Instagram Live.
Again, how stupid is this guy?
And, as I’ve said twice now, this is a man who has made his own decisions. Only in the NBA and professional sports as a whole are people 18-24 considered “kids” as the real criminal justice world, which is a place Ja is going to be very accustomed to if he’s not careful, all of those ages are considered and tried as adults.
Charles Barkley, Shaq, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson (who are all the smartest guys/group on TV when it comes to basketball and stuff like this) are honestly the only people on T.V. you should be listening to about this situation as they offer the reality and gravity of the situation in which Morant now finds himself.
I’ll link the video of them discussing this down below, but they’re not excusing his behavior as a bunch of the “jackasses” (as Chuck said) on ESPN, FOX Sports, Twitter, and the million useless ex-athlete podcasts, etc. have done with lines like “he needs to take a stand against the NBA” or “he didn’t break any laws” or “he’s surrounded by bad friend and is being influenced by them”.
You are who you surrounded yourself with, and that’s who you will be remembered as until you change your ways and negative company.
But, just before I get into the ramifications and the punishment I would dish out, I have to rant about the absolute stupidity of some of these ex-pros on T.V.
You’d honestly be forgiven if you thought these guys came down from the heavens with how they speak and act. The utter arrogance they spew on T.V. just because they were really good at a kid’s game is so nauseating that is makes me sick having to listen to them go on and on about how “only ex-pros can speak about “X” sport due to their divine knowledge being a former professional”…even though everyone who’s even played X sport at a low-level could give just as educated of an opinion.
Sure, a person like me or you wouldn’t know what it’s like to play in front of 20,000 people, the behind-the-scenes of professional sports teams, etc., but that knowledge is so miniscule when talking about the sport in general (ex: how to manage a team, how a team should draft, what kind of players are good for a winning team, etc.).
If every person who played a sport at the highest level was a genius in all of its intricacies and facets, then the front offices and coaching staffs would be dominated by just ex-pros alone.
And, as we all know, that’s not the case as a decent chunk of these guys wouldn’t know how to hammer a nail into the wall if their lives depended on it. At the end of the day, basketball is just a kid’s game that we all love to play (at various levels), watch, and commentate on.
Anyways, back to this story, Ja Morant should be heavily punished by Adam Silver for breaking the morality clause in his contract once again.
These stupid, cowardly, elitest ex-pros will never mention (whether from ignorance, them being morons, or out of maliciousness to win the argument) the fact that the NBA and the 30 teams all impose a morality clause within their player’s contracts to stop them from doing what Ja has done and bring the league and teams into disrepute.
Along with activities like skydiving, riding a motorcycle, skiing, and wielding a gun (including legally), huge corporations like the NBA will not allow their players doing activities that could either cause them or other harm or bring the league into disrepute. Recklessly wielding a gun while sitting in the front seat of a moving car and cringely dancing to NBA Youngboy would fall under both the dangerous and disrepute aspect.
So, if I was Adam Silver, I’d suspend Morant a minimum of 50 games for the 2023/24 season and the potential for more games if Morant is caught holding a gun again as the man has proven he can’t control himself.
As I’m sure many would remember, Morant has already been accused of threating a mall security guard with his thuggish friends, brandishing a gun in an argument with a high schooler, being in a car that supposedly pointed a gun with a laser attached at Pacers employees, and the original gun video of him in a Denver strip club.
This newest video is far from an “ignorant” mistake and is indicative of a far greater stupidity that Ja Morant seems hellbent on achieving: throwing his NBA career away for a life on “the streets”.
I hope Morant doesn’t end up like the many who have made this same mistake before him, but the NBA has to punish him to deter others from repeating his errors.
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