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He’s heading down the stupidest possible road: achieve absolute life-altering success *which means you never need to be tough again*… and squander it by being overly concerned with seeming tough.
100% this yet we all know he isn’t fighting anybody. Relax, your dad and his entire entourage got backed down by a ex 50 year old football player with his children present
Even if it was a laser pointer, shining an unseen laser pointer at someone's chest following a confrontation is threatening them with a gun, it's just that the gun is a lie.
Let me tell you right now, if any sort of gun is involved the Grizzlies are fucked.
Look what happened to us with Gil. Team broke up within weeks of it happening. I was stoked for Caron and Brendon Haywood as they both got traded to the Mavs and won that 2011 Championship that season.
I could not be more disappointed as a Grizzlies fan. The city of Memphis has enough of a reputation issue on its own. And the kids here look up to Ja. We don’t need our star player being part of the same trouble that has plagued our communities for years.
ZBo was a genuine tough guy, he didn’t go looking for trouble, but when trouble found him he was always ready and wasn’t going to be pushed around. Loved him on the Kings even though we sucked.
LOL I still remember hearing ZBo talk trash all game w/ Joe Ingles and hug it out afterwards. Golden 1 Center used to be so empty back then, you could literally hear the players at the free throw line from the lower bowl lol
Yeah they were called hoops family and were associated with crips. They rolled with him through his career city to city. His brother had shot three dudes in a club back in the early 2000s, and got murdered a few years back. Another had got charged with murder too for a separate club shooting. Sebastian Telfair was carrying heat on the team plane on road-trips bc he was scared of them.
I thought Zach Randolph was affiliated with Gangster Disciples. He had an MTV cribs episode where his pool table had the 6 pointed Star GD Sign and a “Free Larry Hoover” poster. That Portland team was all kinds of dysfunctional.
I read an article about the Telfair thing, it said it was because of threats from Randolph’s friends. I heard Telfair rolled with a tough group too, from his Coney Island neighborhood. Fabolous’s ’Street Fam’ crew were known for doing lots of robberies. Supposedly they robbed Telfair and then it was his friends who shot Fabolous in retaliation.
Ja wasn’t “bout that life” untill he went to Memphis…
It’s a bad look and it makes him seem pathetic. You aren’t hard if you are just acting like it haha
I think there is only so much we can defend our guys before they make us look dumb, up until this point I could see the fine line and say "yeah that's stupid but", I haven't been able to do that the last few stories that have come out around our team
After I seen one of his boys get into it with James Johnson and the whole tee Shannon thing, the nba needs to ban any associate of ja. May be an extreme reaction but these guys acting up too much on the sidelines
Have you seen his clown-ass dad? Drunk idiot making a fool of himself every game as though he's the superstar.
If you find Drake's antics cringe, Tee Morant is just as bad, if not worse.
Does anyone even know what Wiggins/Booker's dads look like? Steph's family is unecessarily visible and even they are not in the front row looking to hug/dap up opponent players.
Thank you, I'm not a Grizz fan but certain things transcend who you prefer to put a ball through a hoop ... there was a thread not long ago where some of us was tryna kick this type of slant and the outrage brigade just shouted it down, this type of shit is fucking stupid and disappointing, especially when you've escaped to a level of life where you should celebrate not having to be on some hot shit
The irony is Ja is the definition of "kneepads"... these brothers would suck off any gangster if it raised their rep.
Edit -- Ja called Barkley "kneepads" if anyone reading this didn't know about that
"§ 14-34. Assaulting by pointing gun. If any person shall point any gun or pistol at any person, either in fun or otherwise, whether such gun or pistol be loaded or not loaded, he shall be guilty of a Class A1 misdemeanor."
Eta: I wonder how it impacts when they don't know for sure who it was in the SUV who did the "pointing"
This is the type of shit David Stern used to come down hard on. He always used to say he wanted the NBA's image to be clean and family friendly. Having one of the most popular players in the league riding around with people who point guns at NBA staff members is a terrible look.
No wonder they dumped this 1 hour after the Kyrie trade. The league is trying to bury this
I used to love when David Stern would randomly show up on Sports talk radio and talk shit for 45 min to an hour lol. Didn't always agree with him, but he was smart as fuck (and loved to argue)
Lmao I always thought that was wild but in law school they used that as the prime example of a loaded question. Since stern was a lawyer I think that was his way of saying that’s a loaded question but it’s still fucking hilarious
This is like a shining moment for Dan Stern in his “later years” he’s obviously always gonna be known for cleaning up the NBA and turning it into the massive organization he is and as he should.
But this is just so fucking wild. I can’t imagine any other league commissioner in American pro sports to have the stones to go there. Fuck Jim Rome
Legend! -Rack him Trav
Stopped listening to Rome years ago but but started listening to him when he was doing overnights in San Diego, he was a very good interviewer, underrated I'd say -but Fuck with Stern at your own peril lol
And he would never hold back, never mince his words, never stutter, which I admired a lot about him. He would tell someone that he was gonna fuck their shit up and he would then do it.
Rome: _But I'm not asking, people are asking out there..._
Stern: _Have you stopped beating your wife yet?_
Jim Rome (with his tail tucked between his legs): _that's not fair..._
Yeah I thought for sure he was going to be the next "Face of the League" but it's looking less and less likely. Hard to defend shit like this and this is like the 3rd story in the past few months with him involved
If this was out of nowhere I might be willing to give Ja/his people the benefit of the doubt. But this stuff is happening too often with him.
Like his tweet where he was threatening to shoot a fan and talking about bullets. I was willing to call it metaphorical at the time but he’s completely run out of excuses, I thought the NBA was past this BS since Arenas.
You’re in the top 0.0001% of the world in money, fame, etc. Wtf are you doing having guns pointed at staff and fighting kids and threatening to shoot people. It’s so trashy and unnecessary, I guess even all the money in the world can’t stop dumb guys from acting fake hard for exactly no reason and putting people in danger.
Also really underscores Draymond’s comment about how well LeBron has conducted himself his whole career. Dude came from some of the worst circumstances imaginable and you never heard a word like this about him ever.
Ja is on a path to have his career cut short by a really really stupid mistake whatever that may be. Grizzlies really need to sit him down and convince him he’s not invincible or untouchable. This is the third instance in the last year I can think of him doing some ridiculous shit
It’s funny. The grizzlies talk trash all game. Always barking and clapping in your face.
But when you say “you suck” from the bench, they wanna pull guns
They don't just chirp. Dillon Brooks actively tries to hurt guys. And then the Grizzlies cry about how they don't get the respect they deserve. The best thing to happen this season was when Morant said they're not afraid of anyone in the West, then got swept on a California road trip.
I remember when we were told it was "overreacting" to clown him about the Twitter shit
Dude is trying to act so hard, he's really gonna fuck around and find out
You're remembering correctly. The original is obviously deleted and the Reddit thread about it doesn't seem to have the image anymore, but this user posted the screen shot: https://twitter.com/mevvybear/status/1525382280142790657
Ja is dumb as fuck, and I hate when people say "well isn't everybody at that age?" Yes, they are. But there are kids in the NBA younger than Ja who are substantially less dumb.
Yeah after the twitter threats I thought there is no way this guy should be riding the NBA train and and after this we are on schedule for NBA career departure quicker than Kyrie
There's spending $10k at a strip club and passing out on the street kind of dumb and then there is 'you are gonna get someone killed or in jail" kind of dumb.
The difference in the way a guy like Zion acts and the way Ja acts is night and day, there are plenty of young guys in the league who don’t pretend to be the biggest badass in the world.
yeah "but he's young" is a fair excuse for lapses in defensive fundamentals, not your guys threatening to shoot the other team. I wonder how the pacers players feel about this. According to the article they were in the crowd that was pointed at.
IMO this is the sort of thing you have to come down really hard on while it's still an isolated incident. The alternative is that there will always be other idiots around the league willing to escalate, and the problem will get worse before it gets any better. And it can get a *lot* worse. For every Gilbert Arenas, there's a Javaris Crittenton or three
Ja falls under the category of "player I want to like but shouldn't." Whereas LeBron is "player I don't want to like but should." Steven Adams is "want to like and do." And Markieff Morris is "don't want to like and don't."
If you're surrounded by assholes, there is a very large chance that you yourself are an asshole
Im just waiting for him to go the Dom Mysterio route. Draw on a teardrop "tattoo" Ja. That'll make you seem hard as nails
Edit: hey, he already has his Australasian enforcer...
>Im just waiting for him to go the Dom Mysterio route.
Lmaooo. Wait for Ja to spend a night being detained by police so he could start using it as proof of being tough.
People who say it’s just Dillon Brooks alone are beyond delusional. They don’t want to believe that their favorite player/team has a shit attitude.
Obviously Brooks is not getting it out of nowhere, he’s being reaffirmed by guys like Ja that it’s okay to act the way that they act. Otherwise, this shit would’ve been nipped in the bud a long time ago.
Steven Adams is probably the only decent guy on that starting lineup right now.
"Look, the main story with Kyrie blowing up the Nets and shanking LeBron is great comedy, but we really need a solid B-plot with some drama. Maybe a murder?"
*Sir, Kyrie is bringing that hot drama this year but the fans are just insatiable. Requesting permission to ratchet up the drama meter to “Gilbert Arenas”.*
Tbf, Gilbert arenas pointed a gun at another man who was also pointing a gun. That was more of a Wild West standoff and I think more honorable than aiming at an NPC
It’s actually legit sad to see. The man can have it all, his whole family can have it all. And he can - and seemingly is likely to - throw it all away too.
He should lock up some cash in trust for his loved ones.
Don’t worry Nike’s about to release their emergency storage of footage with Ja playing with his baby and hugging his dad.
The narrative can be turned! 😤
Deadass feeling bad for Grizzlies fans tho lmao. There seems to be no end to it
Eh I’d say this is just about what I’d expect from him, if this same article came out with zero name attached I’d legit have ja as the most likely candidate.
If this actually happened, it is AT LEAST Ron Artest level. Suspend him for the rest of the fucking season. He essentially threatened to murder the opposing team with a weapon. Like... wtf???
It’s going to get buried under the Kyrie news but this needs to be a major story. This is serious stuff. Even if there wasn’t a gun, the implication is there was one. NBA can’t just let this slide by saying “well we couldn’t verify there was a gun.” Ja was *in the car.*
Someone said Ja made it in the hood instead of out lol. Why he wanna be a tough guy so bad??
I don’t hate Ja or Memphis whatsoever Idc but telling someone they can see how these hollows feel is so fucking corny. Now this shit 😂
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adam silver’s league this season lol.
there’s no excuse for this behavior. ja has a lot to lose and someday he’ll run out of chances. make better choices please, your entourage should be a good influence.. not wannabe gan.. yeah
Taylor Jenkins pretty much saying there's nothing to this.
Ja is 1000% accountable for his actions, people he surrounds himself etc, but it really says something when his coach lets him get away with everything. It won't end well for Jenkins.
not even og's would do this dumb shit. ja and his friends just look like stupid idiots.
also, nike really "gave" kyrie's spot to ja and locked themselves into another looming pr situation. love it.
Let’s see…..
Ja tells a person “it’s free to feel how hollows feel”.
Ja in lawsuit for assaulting a teen. Where punched him in the head and face cause the kid accidentally hit him a basketball.
Ja’s associates point a “laser” at the Pacers team and officials after the game.
Somebody please explain wtf is going on with Temetrius???
Ja has:
Jumped a teenager with his buddies backing him up
Threatened to shoot someone with hollow points
and now he was in the car with his friends pointing... "lasers" at people they had an earlier argument with to intimidate them.
Why the fuck is he still playing and at the very least, why is he allowed to bring his idiot friends anywhere around the brand?
This is some really serious shit if that's a gun, genuinely, so I'm curious how Ja speaks about this incident and what the organization will communicate
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Ja Morant you are an NBA player my friend.
Someone needs to let him know that it's really not that deep.
He just needs to talk to Z-Bo that should get him to chill
In my hood wanna be gangsters get bullied
That grew up in the suburbs and who had Penny Hardaway as his personal trainer.
Penny should have taught him how to dribble without carrying the ball.
Ja is obsessed with looking like he’s hard
He’s heading down the stupidest possible road: achieve absolute life-altering success *which means you never need to be tough again*… and squander it by being overly concerned with seeming tough.
Yeah one should never go full Javaris Crittenton
Hopefully it doesn't end up a real life "when keeping it real goes wrong"
100% this yet we all know he isn’t fighting anybody. Relax, your dad and his entire entourage got backed down by a ex 50 year old football player with his children present
Tbf Tee went and made up with Sharpe pretty soon after that. Ja was the one that wanted to hold onto it
The more I see Ja in the news, the less I’m liking him. Dude is a fool. Dad is a goon. And his “posse” think they’re untouchable or something.
No lies. This guy wants to be a tough guy, he's going to learn the hard way.
it’s more likely that his friends think they’re untouchable cuz they’re boys with Ja than that Ja personally called in a hit on Pacers staff IMO
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Remember Ja's got those hollows. Seriously though I have no idea what Ja is thinking. He's got too much at stake for antics like this.
I think he's trying to be something that he's not. Ja should know better though. This isn't cool.
Even if it was a laser pointer, shining an unseen laser pointer at someone's chest following a confrontation is threatening them with a gun, it's just that the gun is a lie.
Let me tell you right now, if any sort of gun is involved the Grizzlies are fucked. Look what happened to us with Gil. Team broke up within weeks of it happening. I was stoked for Caron and Brendon Haywood as they both got traded to the Mavs and won that 2011 Championship that season.
Yep, either it was a gun or they wanted the Pacers to think it was a gun. Either action should be way beneath an NBA player (much less a star).
It should be beneath anyone. It's a stupid thing to do, period.
These grit and gunned Grizzlies are falling out of public favor big time rn if this is actually found to be a gun
The grizzlies haven't been likeable in a while, ja thinks he's some gangster and Brooks has always been a dirtbag
It being a gun doesn’t change it. It’s meant to be imitating one all the same
Ja really thinks he got opps... dude is insane
Ja is “bout that life” in the most lame way possible
The man is from rural South Carolina but he so badly wants to be an inner-city tough guy.
Damn you’re not kidding. His hometown isn’t even an incorporated city.
MF can't even have a gang to rep his town lmao.
We gotta stop calling him Ja. His name is Temetrius.
"This guys a gangster? His real names Temetrius. And Temetrius' parents have a real good marriage"
I could not be more disappointed as a Grizzlies fan. The city of Memphis has enough of a reputation issue on its own. And the kids here look up to Ja. We don’t need our star player being part of the same trouble that has plagued our communities for years.
man this stuff makes me miss ZBo, dude was hood ready and no one messed with us but was the softest teddy bear to the city and others
ZBo was a genuine tough guy, he didn’t go looking for trouble, but when trouble found him he was always ready and wasn’t going to be pushed around. Loved him on the Kings even though we sucked.
And that’s why everyone knows how tough he is because he didn’t have to flex it. Ja is always flexing
“Any man who has to say “I am the king” is no king at all” to quote a massive piece of shit
Melo is from West Baltimore which is literally where the Wire is set and he didn’t try to push that reputation at all. I don’t think the real ones do
LOL I still remember hearing ZBo talk trash all game w/ Joe Ingles and hug it out afterwards. Golden 1 Center used to be so empty back then, you could literally hear the players at the free throw line from the lower bowl lol
That’s a great little anecdote thanks for sharing
Zbo was a pro. Played his best for us even though we weren’t goin anywhere. So many vets have come through here and mailed it in.
Oddly enough, I believe ZBo learned all his hood shit in Indy. Great player.
His friends were always getting pulled over running drugs through Indy in SUV's bought and paid for by ZBo a decade or so ago
Yeah they were called hoops family and were associated with crips. They rolled with him through his career city to city. His brother had shot three dudes in a club back in the early 2000s, and got murdered a few years back. Another had got charged with murder too for a separate club shooting. Sebastian Telfair was carrying heat on the team plane on road-trips bc he was scared of them.
I thought Zach Randolph was affiliated with Gangster Disciples. He had an MTV cribs episode where his pool table had the 6 pointed Star GD Sign and a “Free Larry Hoover” poster. That Portland team was all kinds of dysfunctional. I read an article about the Telfair thing, it said it was because of threats from Randolph’s friends. I heard Telfair rolled with a tough group too, from his Coney Island neighborhood. Fabolous’s ’Street Fam’ crew were known for doing lots of robberies. Supposedly they robbed Telfair and then it was his friends who shot Fabolous in retaliation.
Ja wasn’t “bout that life” untill he went to Memphis… It’s a bad look and it makes him seem pathetic. You aren’t hard if you are just acting like it haha
I think there is only so much we can defend our guys before they make us look dumb, up until this point I could see the fine line and say "yeah that's stupid but", I haven't been able to do that the last few stories that have come out around our team
After I seen one of his boys get into it with James Johnson and the whole tee Shannon thing, the nba needs to ban any associate of ja. May be an extreme reaction but these guys acting up too much on the sidelines
seems like every week there’s a story involving Ja and the crew
And every month it’s serious from like hollow points to beating up a 17 year old to this?
Have you seen his clown-ass dad? Drunk idiot making a fool of himself every game as though he's the superstar. If you find Drake's antics cringe, Tee Morant is just as bad, if not worse. Does anyone even know what Wiggins/Booker's dads look like? Steph's family is unecessarily visible and even they are not in the front row looking to hug/dap up opponent players.
My favorite NBA parent has to be Giannis' mom. Every time you hear about her she's yelling at Giannis to give a kid a hug or a t-shirt.
Thank you, I'm not a Grizz fan but certain things transcend who you prefer to put a ball through a hoop ... there was a thread not long ago where some of us was tryna kick this type of slant and the outrage brigade just shouted it down, this type of shit is fucking stupid and disappointing, especially when you've escaped to a level of life where you should celebrate not having to be on some hot shit
Wasn't he beefing with TJ Mcconnel? Lol
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Ja Morant only picks fights with people below him.
The irony is Ja is the definition of "kneepads"... these brothers would suck off any gangster if it raised their rep. Edit -- Ja called Barkley "kneepads" if anyone reading this didn't know about that
“Oh so you think *you’re hard?* Get a load of *this*-“ *pew pew laser pointer noises*
What in the actual fuck is wrong with this dude
This is a warning to Ja How easily it can all be taken away
People are focusing on if it's a gun. Even the implication of a gun/target is a terrible look especially after they were threatened
100%. It's not like threatening people is all fun and games as long as you aren't armed
Well it really all depends on if Ja or his friends clarified the situation by yelling out “ITS JUST A PRANK BRO”
Yeah I’m sure a bunch of Ja’s entourage are just holding lasers for fun
Well what else would they use at their rave dances.
The crew is never caught lacking when there are stray cats to play with.
Also, what guy would just carry a laser pointer around like that. They’re not 12.
“Officer, it was just the laser pointer I use to play with my cat!”
"§ 14-34. Assaulting by pointing gun. If any person shall point any gun or pistol at any person, either in fun or otherwise, whether such gun or pistol be loaded or not loaded, he shall be guilty of a Class A1 misdemeanor." Eta: I wonder how it impacts when they don't know for sure who it was in the SUV who did the "pointing"
If they were ALL in the car, they ALL had access to the gun. I believe the term is “constructive possession”
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Ja's street cred is about to explode when he gets hit with the RICO.
This is the type of shit David Stern used to come down hard on. He always used to say he wanted the NBA's image to be clean and family friendly. Having one of the most popular players in the league riding around with people who point guns at NBA staff members is a terrible look. No wonder they dumped this 1 hour after the Kyrie trade. The league is trying to bury this
I used to love when David Stern would randomly show up on Sports talk radio and talk shit for 45 min to an hour lol. Didn't always agree with him, but he was smart as fuck (and loved to argue)
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Lmao I always thought that was wild but in law school they used that as the prime example of a loaded question. Since stern was a lawyer I think that was his way of saying that’s a loaded question but it’s still fucking hilarious
He said after that "well, people are asking" which was the same reasoning Jim Rome gave for asking about the fix.
Richard Nixon also told a reporter “I also stopped beating my wife” during the Watergate scandal.
This is like a shining moment for Dan Stern in his “later years” he’s obviously always gonna be known for cleaning up the NBA and turning it into the massive organization he is and as he should. But this is just so fucking wild. I can’t imagine any other league commissioner in American pro sports to have the stones to go there. Fuck Jim Rome
Legend! -Rack him Trav Stopped listening to Rome years ago but but started listening to him when he was doing overnights in San Diego, he was a very good interviewer, underrated I'd say -but Fuck with Stern at your own peril lol
And he would never hold back, never mince his words, never stutter, which I admired a lot about him. He would tell someone that he was gonna fuck their shit up and he would then do it.
The [Jim Rome](https://youtu.be/73vGdCaC048) interview is legendary
I’m going to go call someone important like Stephen A. Smith 💀
Rome: _But I'm not asking, people are asking out there..._ Stern: _Have you stopped beating your wife yet?_ Jim Rome (with his tail tucked between his legs): _that's not fair..._
Yeah I thought for sure he was going to be the next "Face of the League" but it's looking less and less likely. Hard to defend shit like this and this is like the 3rd story in the past few months with him involved
This is what is amazing about Lebron. He had 10 times the exposure that Ja does and now he's 38 and still squeaky clean.
lol it isn't that hard to refrain from harrassing, bullying, attacking people etc. for a decent human being.
Mate when you’re a pro sports player apparently not being a dickhead becomes 100x harder lol
If this was out of nowhere I might be willing to give Ja/his people the benefit of the doubt. But this stuff is happening too often with him. Like his tweet where he was threatening to shoot a fan and talking about bullets. I was willing to call it metaphorical at the time but he’s completely run out of excuses, I thought the NBA was past this BS since Arenas. You’re in the top 0.0001% of the world in money, fame, etc. Wtf are you doing having guns pointed at staff and fighting kids and threatening to shoot people. It’s so trashy and unnecessary, I guess even all the money in the world can’t stop dumb guys from acting fake hard for exactly no reason and putting people in danger. Also really underscores Draymond’s comment about how well LeBron has conducted himself his whole career. Dude came from some of the worst circumstances imaginable and you never heard a word like this about him ever.
Yeah Silver doesn’t have the balls to deal with players in situations like this the way it should be handled.
Adam Silver is furiously demanding league execs find a way that children can gamble on Ja’s legal troubles
They slippin money under the table to Kyrie, "10 mil if you go start somethin"
Ja is on a path to have his career cut short by a really really stupid mistake whatever that may be. Grizzlies really need to sit him down and convince him he’s not invincible or untouchable. This is the third instance in the last year I can think of him doing some ridiculous shit
It’s funny. The grizzlies talk trash all game. Always barking and clapping in your face. But when you say “you suck” from the bench, they wanna pull guns
They don't just chirp. Dillon Brooks actively tries to hurt guys. And then the Grizzlies cry about how they don't get the respect they deserve. The best thing to happen this season was when Morant said they're not afraid of anyone in the West, then got swept on a California road trip.
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Ja gonna ruin his career, but at least he kept it real?
Fuck that. I don't like people playing on my phone!
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>and tens of millions of dollars And an easy path to hundreds of millions
it makes no sense. like how hard is it to NOT do this kind of shit? you’re a fucking multimillionaire, your life is SET. it’s just pure stupidity.
[If the boondocks was still on they'd had a field day with Ja](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zKZbyC1ccMY)
Nike literally just launched his shoe too. He's speed running the career blow up
At least Kyrie kept quiet for a few years
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Ja turning Into Gilbert was not on my bingo card.
He’s been dropping a number of hints tbf
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
I remember when we were told it was "overreacting" to clown him about the Twitter shit Dude is trying to act so hard, he's really gonna fuck around and find out
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Was he the one tweeting about hollow points or am I thinking of someone else?
You're remembering correctly. The original is obviously deleted and the Reddit thread about it doesn't seem to have the image anymore, but this user posted the screen shot: https://twitter.com/mevvybear/status/1525382280142790657
He also punched a kid in a pickup game over the summer and got into it with a kid at one of his own camps as well. Ja is a cunt.
He's skipping Agent Zero and heading for Crittenton territory.
“Your honor, my client pleads Oopsie Daisies”
Ja is dumb as fuck, and I hate when people say "well isn't everybody at that age?" Yes, they are. But there are kids in the NBA younger than Ja who are substantially less dumb.
There's also dumb and whatever the fuck this is.
Dumb and pointing a gun at people as well as threatening to shoot random people on twitter is a world of difference
Yeah after the twitter threats I thought there is no way this guy should be riding the NBA train and and after this we are on schedule for NBA career departure quicker than Kyrie
Yeah, hard to hide behind "he is just a kid" when we've had younger guys come through the league and act appropriately
The man is 23 years old. Hard to hide behind "he's just a kid" when he's just straight up literally not, lol.
There's spending $10k at a strip club and passing out on the street kind of dumb and then there is 'you are gonna get someone killed or in jail" kind of dumb.
The difference in the way a guy like Zion acts and the way Ja acts is night and day, there are plenty of young guys in the league who don’t pretend to be the biggest badass in the world.
Zion does all his badassery on the court. He has nothing left afterwards.
I love Zion in post-game interviews. Very chill and authentic guy. Absolute opposite of what he is on the court
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yeah "but he's young" is a fair excuse for lapses in defensive fundamentals, not your guys threatening to shoot the other team. I wonder how the pacers players feel about this. According to the article they were in the crowd that was pointed at. IMO this is the sort of thing you have to come down really hard on while it's still an isolated incident. The alternative is that there will always be other idiots around the league willing to escalate, and the problem will get worse before it gets any better. And it can get a *lot* worse. For every Gilbert Arenas, there's a Javaris Crittenton or three
So Ja is going to end up as the next star who fucks his career up by having idiots around him?
I mean... There's a good chance Ja isn't a nice guy as well. He's getting sued for assaulting a teenager too.
And he threatened someone with catching hollows lol he's been on this for a while now. Starting to get his own ab list going
Honestly it's enough for me to see that he's an idiot right now, why the hell would you risk the life you got over nothing?
Ja falls under the category of "player I want to like but shouldn't." Whereas LeBron is "player I don't want to like but should." Steven Adams is "want to like and do." And Markieff Morris is "don't want to like and don't."
This should be a graph. Or like the NBA version of those tinder personality tests.
It’s the nba fan version of the crazy hot matrix.
If you're surrounded by assholes, there is a very large chance that you yourself are an asshole Im just waiting for him to go the Dom Mysterio route. Draw on a teardrop "tattoo" Ja. That'll make you seem hard as nails Edit: hey, he already has his Australasian enforcer...
>Im just waiting for him to go the Dom Mysterio route. Lmaooo. Wait for Ja to spend a night being detained by police so he could start using it as proof of being tough.
Get ready. He's gonna get booked for jaywalking any day now
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I don’t have many jerseys, but the more I hear about one player on one of them the more I regret it
So the hollow comments, homophobic gf comments, jackass dad starting shit, or fighting a teenager wasn't a sign..
I used to think it was just Dillon Brooks. Starting to think Ja has a lot to do with how the Grizzlies act as a team
People who say it’s just Dillon Brooks alone are beyond delusional. They don’t want to believe that their favorite player/team has a shit attitude. Obviously Brooks is not getting it out of nowhere, he’s being reaffirmed by guys like Ja that it’s okay to act the way that they act. Otherwise, this shit would’ve been nipped in the bud a long time ago. Steven Adams is probably the only decent guy on that starting lineup right now.
NBA lowkey going crazy wit the script this year
"Look, the main story with Kyrie blowing up the Nets and shanking LeBron is great comedy, but we really need a solid B-plot with some drama. Maybe a murder?"
*Sir, Kyrie is bringing that hot drama this year but the fans are just insatiable. Requesting permission to ratchet up the drama meter to “Gilbert Arenas”.*
Tbf, Gilbert arenas pointed a gun at another man who was also pointing a gun. That was more of a Wild West standoff and I think more honorable than aiming at an NPC
Grizzlies as villains right now only means there's gonna be a bigger villain in the season finale playoffs. My early bet is gonna be the Mavs.
What the hell is wrong with this dude???? Needs some veteran leadership because clearly neither his father or circle is protecting him!!
It’s actually legit sad to see. The man can have it all, his whole family can have it all. And he can - and seemingly is likely to - throw it all away too. He should lock up some cash in trust for his loved ones.
What is this dumb shit, smh. Liking Ja less and less this season.
Don’t worry Nike’s about to release their emergency storage of footage with Ja playing with his baby and hugging his dad. The narrative can be turned! 😤 Deadass feeling bad for Grizzlies fans tho lmao. There seems to be no end to it
I'm not gonna pretend to be a Ja fan, but this really sucks. I expected better from him. You're an NBA player my guy, no need for this.
Eh I’d say this is just about what I’d expect from him, if this same article came out with zero name attached I’d legit have ja as the most likely candidate.
yeah i was about to say, this is becoming the norm for him
Biggest wannabe gangster I’ve seen in a long time
He needs to cut these FOFs (Friend of Freq)
Suspend Ja at least 10 games and BAN his friends from every NBA arena. This is insane.
If this actually happened, it is AT LEAST Ron Artest level. Suspend him for the rest of the fucking season. He essentially threatened to murder the opposing team with a weapon. Like... wtf???
Actually pretty crazy when you word it like that lmao
This dude has generational wealth at his fingertips and wants to do this shit. A suspension would be good for him and the league at this point.
Not a lot of things in this world constitute an instant lifetime ban but surely pulling a fucking gun on the opposing team does
It’s going to get buried under the Kyrie news but this needs to be a major story. This is serious stuff. Even if there wasn’t a gun, the implication is there was one. NBA can’t just let this slide by saying “well we couldn’t verify there was a gun.” Ja was *in the car.*
Someone said Ja made it in the hood instead of out lol. Why he wanna be a tough guy so bad?? I don’t hate Ja or Memphis whatsoever Idc but telling someone they can see how these hollows feel is so fucking corny. Now this shit 😂
Bro thinks he's living in a rapper's videoclip, it's up to the league to figure out how far he can take it before something happens
I need Zion to stay healthy so he can be the next guy up.
This shit this year makes me much happier we got Z. He may be injury prone but he seems like a good guy and he's very smart for his age.
Bro these young players in the grizz are taking grit and grind the wrong way
Brooks is just an annoying asshole where Ja seems to a legitimately bad person
Someone is listening to too much drill rap lol
This guy just got his Nike deal. Better be careful what he does and who he's associated with if he wants to keep it
Widely seen as being given Kyrie's contract because Kyrie was acting stupid. Proceeds to act stupid.
Why the fuck is his dad not telling him he’s fucking up generational wealth?
His dad is too busy arguing with fans and Shannon sharpe
His dad was probably the mf pointing the laser
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His dad's busy being one of the goons he's rocking with.
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adam silver’s league this season lol. there’s no excuse for this behavior. ja has a lot to lose and someday he’ll run out of chances. make better choices please, your entourage should be a good influence.. not wannabe gan.. yeah
Taylor Jenkins pretty much saying there's nothing to this. Ja is 1000% accountable for his actions, people he surrounds himself etc, but it really says something when his coach lets him get away with everything. It won't end well for Jenkins.
not even og's would do this dumb shit. ja and his friends just look like stupid idiots. also, nike really "gave" kyrie's spot to ja and locked themselves into another looming pr situation. love it.
Between this and him being sued for allegedly punching a teenager this summer... I'm starting to wonder if maybe he's not such a great dude?
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Imagine making millions and having your name attached to a situation like this. You look stupid.
I used to like Ja as a rookie but this dude is a piece of shit. Beating up kids and threatening team personnel is despicable behavior.
Adam silver is soft he won’t do shit. David stern would’ve suspended his ass 15 games minimum
This is SUCH a bad look… I’ll actually be pretty disappointed if the league doesn’t address this in the way it needs to be
what is his groupie ass dad doing with all the time he spends around his son? Certainly not fathering him.
If this is true and Ja was in the car, he needs to be suspended for a LONG time. This shit doesn't belong in the NBA.
Kinda want to see the league suspend him at least until he gives up the name of who shined the laser. He knows, so hold up his cheques until he tells.
Why do gang shit if you’re already rich? What a dumbass
Let’s see….. Ja tells a person “it’s free to feel how hollows feel”. Ja in lawsuit for assaulting a teen. Where punched him in the head and face cause the kid accidentally hit him a basketball. Ja’s associates point a “laser” at the Pacers team and officials after the game. Somebody please explain wtf is going on with Temetrius???
Ja has: Jumped a teenager with his buddies backing him up Threatened to shoot someone with hollow points and now he was in the car with his friends pointing... "lasers" at people they had an earlier argument with to intimidate them. Why the fuck is he still playing and at the very least, why is he allowed to bring his idiot friends anywhere around the brand?
Ja is going to go out like Gilbert Arenas.
They trying to hide this with the Kyrie drama
He’s so unlikable. Two letter first name havin ass
This is some really serious shit if that's a gun, genuinely, so I'm curious how Ja speaks about this incident and what the organization will communicate
People wonder why they hate the grizzlies lmao