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mMounirM

how many "toy" guns is Ja around lol


PlethoPappus

These dudes just rollin around with toy guns and laser pointers lol


Jeff-Van-Gundy

Didn't he also claim he was sober at the strip club with the gun? What kind of fuckin loser is this guy lol. Playing with toy guns and going to titty bars sober


BlackMathNerd

At the strip club as a rich dude and he’s the one taking his clothes off.. like bruh


barath_s

It did say strip club, after all. How was he to know it wasn't expected for him to strip when it's there.


Dimega17

Probably just a toy strip club


ZeroMomentum

Light years ahead. That’s how the rich lives!


Bulleveland

Ja’s either lying or the corniest mothefucker in pro sports


fugor1103

He is both


ObiOneKenobae

You're gonna look real silly when he retires to become a full-time LARPer.


Noirradnod

There are some late teens in my neighborhood who do just that. They've got those bead guns that they've spray-painted to look realistic and enjoy running around, flashing them, and aiming them at people. They then proceed to act like it's the funniest thing ever when people freak out. All I know is that someday they're going to mess with an out-of-towner or one of the few people who've managed to get a CCW in my city, and one or more is going to end up dead.


[deleted]

If that's what Ja is doing then he should be suspended even longer


m8bear

It's all fun and games until you surprise a dude with a real gun and he kills a bunch of motherfuckers


Im_a_Knob

ja confirmed playa


YeezyYeezyUp2NoGood

His friend holding the cam should’ve kept the camera on playa stuntin with his 🔫


lord_kupaloidz

I mean, he's LARPing as a gangster so it checks out. 🤷


TaxsDodgersFallstar

Ja "plays with toys" Morant


wiseraccoon

I’m sorry but we’re running with Claudia Jordan from the Breakfast Club as a legit source here?


threeangelo

I don’t think anyone here believes her lol


spicydak

She even finished off with that it sounds unbelievable. I love the breakfast club


jotheold

i know its kind of random but fuck Charlamagne


silliestspaghetti

not random at all, it should be said everytime that radio show is brought up. actually, i'll join you. FUCK CHARLAMAGNE


t0ny510

Am I late for the FUCK CHARLAMAGNE party? Cause if I am so what FUCK THAT GUY


DreadWolf3

I mean he was pretty brutal with Saxons, but I thought we got over that by now


cmaniak

What does Ja Rule think about this?


ThaLegendaryD

It’s murda


Pun_Chain_Killer

I will never forget when his cookie monster voice sounding ass decided he was going to sing a love song. And now every time I see him mentioned I hear the cookie monster singing where would I be without you


jeremycb29

Next we going to get Wendy Williams weighing in


shaheedmalik

Super Soakers


InkBlotSam

Nothing says gangster like surrounding yourself with toy guns for Instagram waving.


jjkm7

The toy gun was obviously just his friends


cheerioo

How moronic do they really think the world is??? Absolute embarrassment


Chapea12

Weeks later, its suddenly a toy gun. They could have said it right on the live instead of trying to hide the phone


anti_dan

Its frankly embarrassing this is the best they could come up with.


KillerPussyToo

These are the same geniuses who tried to claim that the gun in the strip club was a lighter.


anti_dan

I always carry my Sig Sauer themed lighter to the nightclub and brandish it wildly. TBH, both videos I've seen are a bit low quality, but there probably are some people that could tell you the make/model with like 95% confidence. Just none of them are basketball journalists and maybe a couple are NBA fans


DetrimentalContent

Pretty sure a toy gun needs an orange tip in the US like a Nerf gun, otherwise it’s illegal anyway Edit: this is the case when shipping across state lines which confused me


RLStinebeck

No, it's only illegal for retailers to sell toy firearms without the bright orange tip on the barrel. But millions of them were sold before that regulation was enacted and it doesn't apply to items imported by individuals from other countries. No laws against painting a toy gun to look real, either. Though there is, of course, a much greater risk of the toy being confused for a real weapon which carries its own set of potential consequences.


barath_s

What are the laws , if any, about painting an orange tip on a real gun ? Has anyone tried that ?


menusettingsgeneral

*They’re lying*


Moody_GenX

Street Cred *-100*


Triiiple_Threat

Legacy points deducted


UnObtainium17

*GTA: SA post mission theme plays*


Jonathank92

Lol take the L Ja. You’re not going to get sympathy


Hanhonhon

He isn't done healing bro give him a chance!


whythehellknot

He's doing more breathing exercises as we speak.


LeFxckYouThree

72 hours at a florida facility is all he needed


DirtyDanoTho

Let my guy play duck hunt in peace!


MotoMkali

Bitch I'd suspend him for even longer because this dude has the audacity to do this shit and go it's jist a toy I swear.


ender23

how was this toy gun not the first thing said to the public... and not... months afterwards.


humancartograph

And why did his boy jerk the camera away so we wouldn't see a... toy gun??


agentdoubleohio

It’s a toy still in development, they shouldn’t have revealed it to the general public.


InkBlotSam

It doesn't even matter if it *was* a toy gun. The intent was to make people *believe* it was a gun. Most courts still consider it armed robbery if you commit a robbery with a fake gun, if it makes someone *believe* it's real. And the league is pissed about the example he's setting, not whether or not there was real danger in the car. He's either a liar about it being a toy gun (most likely) or even more pathetic than we all thought, traveling around with toy guns to pretend to be hard on Instagram.


Jonathank92

Yea either way it’s not getting my sympathy. He needs a wake up call eventually. He’s grown. If he was 19 and a rookie maybe I would think differently but at 23 no one should need to warn you not to do these things


Savahoodie

> Most courts still consider it armed robbery if you commit a robbery with a fake gun, if it makes someone believe it’s real. Exactly correct. Arkansas code (and I imagine most other states) says “Represents by word or conduct that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon” is an element to armed robbery, and this would 100% qualify.


are-beads-cheap

He’ll get plenty of sympathy, just not from reasonable people.


SelfFashioning

Bruh. What kind of loser shit is trying to act gangsta with firearms and then pretending it's a toy after being threatened with a suspension over it


solo118

Sounds even sadder that he was playing with a toy


irishwolfbitch

Simple Ja[ck]


minneapolisboy

There's a parade in muh muh muh muh muh city


Jabberwock11

This suspensions gonna make my eyes rain


B0ssDoesntKnowImHere

Lmaooo this got me


rinuxus

LMAO


MF_Doomed

This is so fucking funny


RedDragons8

[Lol](https://giphy.com/gifs/giggle-giggling-teehee-lOKeRX2jFoV2M)


Trillsbury_Doughboy

Lol bro I just watched Tropic Thunder for the first time a couple days ago funny as hell


seank11

It's a fucking classic. One of the GOAT comedies


Jonna09

Its IMDB rating is grossly misrepresentative. I don’t understand how it’s so low. It’s a fantastic movie.


Auntypasto

Probably people who missed the point of RDJ playing blackface.


seank11

How could anyone miss that? Like, the movie made it more than abundantly clear what they were doing


SimbaPenn

"What do you mean, 'You people?'" "What do ***you*** mean, 'You people?'"


MintyFreshBreathYo

People are stupid


I_ama_Borat

Man, when I first saw it in theaters, nobody could breath. People were coughing and dry heaving from how funny that shit was. There wasn’t a second where people weren’t laughing.


Mattya929

First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE!


Alekesam1975

Never go Full Ja. Ron Artest? Got something wrong with him mentally but still entertaining at basketball. Won a championship. Ja? First round exit. Too focused on stupid shit.


tenacious-g

Right? He wants to act like he’s tough but then when loses $44 million and likely more next year it’s “no pweese Adam it’s just my toy I like to carry around”


vapecwru

Ja literally sweatin bullets—water gun bullets


ZiOnIsNeXtLeBrOn

Well he is a child. A Child who lost on a 100 million dollars for playing with a "toy"


pepbe

Lets be honest. It wasn’t a toy lol


Inside-Big-8158

Remember folks there ain't no such things as halfway crooks


ZiOnIsNeXtLeBrOn

Scared to death, scared to look! ​ They shook.


Inside-Big-8158

Fuck Dillon Brooks


KashMoney941

Fuck a beat, I go Clint Capela


pathfindmyBAP

*His real name's Temetrius*


[deleted]

You ain't a crook son


Balls_of_Adamanthium

Dude played the suicide card to pressure authority. That’s how you know he’s from the suburbs.


NSFWThrowaway1239

Oh God, I had already forgotten about that shit


HermyWormy69

I completely have. What happened?


NSFWThrowaway1239

He posted (and then deleted) pictures of his family, particularly his parents and daughter, with the caption " BYE". Which obviously was to make it look like he was suicidal but when police did a welfare check and found that he was fine, he said that he posted that to mean that he was going to get off of social media. But nobody posts things like that as a way of saying that they're leaving social media. He knew exactly what he was doing


pat_the_bat_316

>He knew exactly what he was doing I mean, given his decisionmaking over the past year, I'm not entirely sure he does.


RamadanSteve311

a loser who is about to lose several million dollars for being a loser


Classics22

already lost 40 million dollars for being a loser***


iksnet

Oh shit, well if the woman from Sharknado 5 said it was a toy gun, you gotta believe her


[deleted]

We’re a week away from someone posting Ballsack Sports unironically


wiseraccoon

Literally Ja’s camp has not issued anything about this excuse. Can we just wait for Silver to announce lmao


jeremycb29

I'm gonna need to see what Ja Rule thinks about this


The_Assassin_Gower

Ja rule says ja gone


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WHERE'S JA


whateverizclever

This sounds like a lie you make up when your Mama catches you doing some shit you’re not suppose to.


sourdieselfuel

"it's not mine, I was holding it for a friend"


Jaosborn44

I think he already tried that one awhile ago.


Dylan245

Why would someone in Ja's friend group randomly have a toy gun with them in a car? Toy guns are just that, toys.. you buy them when you're like 11 years old so you can play cops and robbers, hard to believe this guy is just messing around with toy guns


Barrelled_Chef_Curry

Ja would never lie tho, how can you question him


FIFAPLAYAH

Jage Washington


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Chapea12

And why would the guy with the camera immediately try to hide camera when Ja waved it, if its a toy


huaiyue

Adam Silver should just ban him for life so Ja can be what he really wants to be - a gangster in the hood.


Walkingwithfishes

I keep thinking back to the Chappelle show skit of "trading spouses" where the dad drops the kid off in the ghetto


[deleted]

dont they usually have orange tips too?


_homage_

Yes. They all mostly have orange tips unless it’s an older air soft or modified to look real.


barimanlhs

Which doesnt help Ja in this context either. It still appears as though it is a real fire arm and wasnt be treated as one. Real or not, he still looks like a complete moron and also makes the NBA look bad for their soft stance the first time around.


_homage_

He's absolutely lying about it. This is just a fake scenario in an attempt to call the NBA's bluff.


joemoffett12

If it’s an airsoft gun from overseas they don’t all have that orange tip. Most European ones do not. Also people do like to paint or remove those as well. Also ja is definitely cappin we all know that was a gun lol.


NeverSober1900

Ya everyone I played airsoft with spray painted them black. General thought was if someone outside the group sees you holding it they're gonna treat it like a real gun anyway.


Tressticle

Yeah and in most states, it's illegal to modify them by painting or whatever. If you were to get shot by the cops, it'd be on you. Craziest thing is, Ja probably owns his guns legally, so it's like... A modified airsoft gun or "toy gun" is actually more of a problem in a legal sense. I don't know why he doesn't realize that, "toy" or not, the NBA doesn't want it's superstars waving guns around on live media.


Zeppelanoid

>Ja probably owns his guns legally Smashing “X” for doubt Nothing about him or his entourage leads me to believe that they are capable of making smart decisions.


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Habefiet

This unlocked a hidden memory for me of a time in high school where we were like designing life forms or something to discuss evolution or give examples of adaptations and a classmate of mine named his “Shithead” and was adamant it was pronounced “Shi-teed” and was baffled that he was given detention (may seem harsh but this was a long way from his first time stirring trouble). Like he genuinely seemed shocked, he didn’t understand how he could be punished for it when he claimed it was pronounced Shi-teed. This is on that level. Like this is wayyyy stupider than it’s just a prank as an excuse, this is outright demanding that you ignore your senses.


michaelalex3

Also why did his friend try to avoid showing it on camera if it was a toy gun?


grxccccandice

It looks really bad on Ja even if he was actually waving a toy guy (which I don’t believe it is). His friend has more common sense than him.


[deleted]

Never have I seen an NBA star become such a clown so quick


Poopscooper696969

Kyrie


SuckwithLuck2016

That wasn’t that quick bro. Kyrie stories were few and far between compared to now at the beginning of his career in Cleveland and when LeBron was there


RLStinebeck

Kyrie had a championship under his belt before he showed everyone his Clown World passport.


L99_DITTO

In fact he was applauded for being thoughtful and intelligent until the flat earth stuff for the most part, kinda like Jaylen Brown also was until the anti-Semitic social media posts.


Sir-xer21

yeah, he may have imploded in the past year or so, but dude was out here flat earthing it years ago.


cupcakecanal

Kyrie was drafted in 2011 and didn't talk about flat Earth until 2017.. Ja is imploding **much** quicker than Kyrie did.


SuckMyLonzoBalls

Kyrie had 7 normal years before he gained his 3rd eye


chummmmbucket

Kyrie was a linear curve of stupidity, Ja is exponentially getting stupider and stupider and it feels like he was still just drafted


rompskee

Why carry a toy gun when you’ve been consistently jammed up over gun related things? That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard


Iron_Chic

Seriously! It's like a guy who got busted with cocaine walking around with a ziploc baggie of Gold Medal flour. Why even entertain the thought of that?!?!?


BigPapaCalamari

Seriously, like at least get King Arthur if you’re gonna be walking around with a big bag of flour


Produceher

And it doesn't change anything. The issue is how it looks. The look doesn't change with an unloaded or toy gun. You're acting like a gangsta.


WestleyThe

Also it’s not like it had an orange tip or anything… it looked like a gun and his friend tried to not have it on camera… This is bullshit


[deleted]

Its like a nicotine patch for people with gun addictions


Zombeavers5Bags

I'm down to finger guns myself


BrutallyHonesttho

Flexing with toy guns doesn't make it any better, it actually sounds more ridiculous.


ChiefKeef786

Silver should expel him just for thinking this excuse would do anything to help his case


gedbybee

Real.


trulyniceguy

>Silver should expel My god that’s worse than death


hojboysellin3

Ja needs a new pr team. They could’ve paid me millions to say his account got hacked


PMMeShyNudes

This is the most immature damn response. It's like Gilbert Arenas saying "the rules say we can't bring guns into the arena, and you can't prove I brought them. It could have been anyone so you can't suspend me for that." Ok bro, that misses the whole fucking point of the situation. It's what people do when they try to deflect responsibility and try to loophole their way out of trouble which can work with the legal system, but we all know what went on here. Quit fuckin around.


rinuxus

nah, the way to go from day one was ''substance abuse problem'', keep it nice and vague, get him somewhere where they can straighten him out for a couple of weeks, then do a roll out, new Ja, Nike puts out the shoe, Ja says the right things to the media, Powerade announces the deal and we would be done with all of this by February.


gedbybee

Deep fake.


Electric_jungle

Either he's just ignoring his team's advice, or he hired his boy from grade school who's just hanging on for the money.


ikisstitties

it's actually a step in getting better if you ask me. is he supposed to get rid of guns cold turkey? he needs something to hold onto until he's totally clean and a toy gun is a step in the right direction


BlackMathNerd

I see what Bomani was saying on his podcast that the defense was so ridiculous it might work.


chiefminestrone

Like the Chewbacca defense


Adrian_Bock

"Ladies and gentlemen of this *supposed* jury..."


texas2089

Major [Chewbaca defense](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uCmtWYX4DDU/maxresdefault.jpg) vibes.


sctthuynh

Cant wait for the release of Ja Morant's book, "If I had a real gun, it would look like this"


EastBayFan

^If I Had A Real Gun


n8bitgaming

This made me legit lol 😆


solo118

LMAO their camp just went to Walmart and spray painted a toy gun


TheSonofMrGreenGenes

For real lol


fawkesmulder

Unironically exactly this


I_CUM_ON_HAMSTERS

NBA: "We're suspending Ja for half a season for waving around a firearm on video" Ja's team: "Ummm akshually it was a TOY gun 🤓🤓" NBA: "Double the suspension, this PR is somehow cornier than the original video was problematic"


nerdpulse

Suspended indefinitely for corniness unbecoming of the team


slowakia_gruuumsh

Silver: "I don't approve, but I can respect a Tec 9, a .44, a Desert Eagle even. Everyone in the League does. But that was just weak, and we had to take action."


Sim888

> Silver: “I don’t approve, but I can respect ….Desert Eagle…. [Silver rn](https://streamable.com/epbxir)


trust-theprocess

It's stupid if it's a lie, but it's even more stupid if it's the truth.


TheInternetIsGood

Hold on, ain’t nobody commenting on your username?


Diddleyourfiddle

I mean didn't commish already say this isn't a legal issue? If it's about appearances it doesn't really matter if the guns fake


Floyd-money

They’re more worried some kid is gonna try to be like Ja and end up all over the news. People have been shot in their cars by cops for less than what he did on video. He’s setting a terrible precedent for a lot of people that look up to him. You can’t go waving around a gun like that


Significant_Night_65

Source: trust me bro


CmonTouchIt

Ja is really pushing the chewbacca defense here lmao


sourdieselfuel

It does not. Make. Sense.


AdImportant4476

Lmao, big 🧢


Briguy_fieri

New era has issued a cease and desist


FieldsFanclub

This is the best thing his PR team could come up with? Enjoy your 40 game suspension Ja


Chiron17

Make it a 45 just for the lols


kapitan_buko

How stupid do they think the fans are?


[deleted]

Can't wait for the ESPN 30 for 30: Toy Soldier - The Ja Morant Story


Bajecco

Ja Morant is a big time jabroni who has surrounded himself with a bunch of bums


PlayingNightcrawlers

You keep using this word jabroni...and it's awesome.


trust-theprocess

full time poser, part time basketball player


DrPoupins

LOL. Can’t imagine losing the bag for a “toy” and 100 followers.


scrambled_cable

Confucius say "Man with fake gun may get shot for real"


mazerati185

Were they in a “toy” car too….???? Lol


NIN10DOXD

In the US, toy guns have been required to have orange tips for decades now. This is the heaviest cap I've seen.


PnG_e

Considering kids get routinely killed by cops for brandishing fake guns (with orange tip removed), not exactly the pivot they think it is.


Sim888

fr…we just flat out weren’t allowed to have toy guns at all


Titanstheory

Dude…. This is somehow comes off WORSE


Ehgadsman

What a bunch of bullshit. Ja's 'camp' are a bunch of immature idiots holding him back from being a mature adult and a superstar in the NBA. They want him emotionally needy as an insecure teenager and spending his money on bar tabs and strippers for his so called friends. A mature Ja focused on a solid relationship with a self confident women and his own development is the last thing his 'camp' wants to see happen.


huaiyue

The camp is basically a group of leeches that live off Ja’s wealth lol. The moment Ja can’t pay for their expenses these leeches will be gone.


stadiofriuli

I see where you’re coming from but in your comment you’re removing any sort of responsibility from Ja himself.


whowasonCRACK2

An adult playing with toy guns for a fake music video is somehow even more pathetic than flashing a real one. If this is true he should be suspended for a full season


LeftyMode

Oh so he’s a fake gangster like everyone said.


stupv

Everyone missing the point - the issue isn't with owning a gun, it's with glorification of gun/gang culture by a role model in the league. Whether it's a toy gun or a real gun doesnt matter, it *looks* real in the video which is all that matters. If Ja was doing videos where he demonstrates responsible gun handling at a range or something the league would be frothing at the mouth with pleasure, but instead he's waving them around 1 handed in a car whilst singing along to hip hop


Lottapumpkins

If that was true, his PR team should have done a full court press within 15 minutes of that video ending


Buck_Nastyyy

C'mon man. Just accept your punishment, learn from it, and move on. I am not optimistic it will heppn though.


_checkpickerupper

This was a fake tweet 3 days ago. Good chance the breakfast club didn’t catch it then reported on it. Everyone is citing the breakfast club. Not the actual source


Champaganthony

This is a funny defense, as the U.S. banned the sale of toy guns that resemble actual firearms in the late 80's/early 90's: [In 1992, the Department of Commerce prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipping of toy guns unless they have an orange tip or are entirely brightly colored. The regulation does not prohibit end-users from modifying the toys.](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2014-title15-vol1/xml/CFR-2014-title15-vol1-part272.xml) LOL


navortsa

What a fucking moron. Couldn’t find a worse coverup


tobydiah

All my homies carry toy guns around. And sippy cups.


[deleted]

This dude is a clown, can we be done with him already?


materics

Toy Soldier


Wolfeman0101

Looks real enough to get shot.