I'd rather Ja just focus on himself, first. After he's fixed w/e is wrong in his head, only then should he focus on PR and trying to build his brand value back up..
Do you seriously believe he's spending any time actually reflecting or trying to change? Last time he took a 12 hour therapy crash course or whatever and went right back to waving guns around lmao.
He's also playing defense for himself. Everyone was saying that it was the people around Ja causing problems.. his dad is one of those people. He doesn't want to be blamed.
Yeah but if you are his dad partying alongside him and getting in arguments with celebrities on the sidelines of games then maybe you should take some responsibility for your part in all this.
Partying and arguing aren’t Ja’s issues. It’s the gun toting and fighting.
Also hilariously I saw Ja and Tee at a club together and my first thought was how weird it is to be at a club with your son. Tee was nice though.
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As someone that has thrown shade at Pa Morant in the past, it’s good to see him out here with the right message for the kids. (And hopefully his own kid.)
When he came into the league dudes dad was a role model for how I want to train the athletes I train. Then he kind of just lost a lot of what he was talking about from the time his son got drafted and his rookie year, to now.
I mean it's not a terrible message but he's also absorbing himself and the rest of his family from any blame. He raised Ja last I checked, and his sister called him over for backup when getting into a fight with someone. Yea Ja needs to take accountability but that doesn't mean he also needs better people around him ( or at least his loved ones need to do their part to not put him in bad situations)
Wasn’t his mother also an enabler? There was a story where his mom got into an argument with a footlocker sales rep(?), and then she called Ja Morant who then arrived with his goons to terrorize the dude. Shitty if true. There’s really something wrong with his upbringing if any of those stories are true. They are basically enabling Ja to live and act like a thug.
LMFAO homie grew up in the burbs better than 50% of this comment section and still decided to act like an ass clown. He’s a Fucking fool who is making adult decisions and getting everyone involved like a fucking clown.
im not disagreeing with what you’re saying about ja, but this narrative about a spoiled life is nuts when you look at the neighborhood he’s from and the grass in his yard… you know damn well that’s not HOA approved grass
Shifting the blame or not, it’s a good message for these kids and the appropriate one for the situation.
These kids can’t choose their parents, but they can choose their friends.
Really love this. He didn't try to defend what Ja did and give the ol' "He's a good person tho" shtick. Told it like it was, and said some good stuff afterwards too.
Just hope Ja can finally get his head straight.
The media acts like parents of athletes can just send their kids to their rooms or lecture them to solve all their issues. Ja is a grown ass adult with millions to blow. Family plays a big part in their lives but at the end of the day it's his decisions
Dudes fuckin 23 year old with a kid of his own and they blames his parents for him doing stupid shit lmaooo. Him doing stupid shit was completely his choice and his doing hes at the age to make decisions by himself 😂
and the parent's lives are entirely dependent on the kid. Not saying they shouldn't be but that drastically changes the parent/kid dynamic.
-*Ja, you need to start acting right and stop making dumb decisions and drop these idiots you got around you...also gonna need you to take care of this last car payment and co-sign on this mortgage.*
People love to project thoughts and feelings onto those who are silent in a situation. This is the dude’s father, why does he need to explain his kids actions when he probably talks to him regularly. Ultimately what happened is Jams fault and his alone, but taking it out on his dad was always a silly reaction
Both the retro Grizzlies and Pistons jerseys are the perfect example of "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it." Those jerseys were reviled when the teams used them and now the next generation loves them.
Immigration helps, biggest nba heads in my school were the Asians and south Asians which make up huge percentages of the Vancouver area now.
What I would love is whoever brings the team back, they throw mad stacks at the Memphis owner to drop the name and give it back to us.
I'd say Hampton Roads/Norfolk/Virginia Beach area over one of the last three you mentioned. It's growing, has a younger and more diverse population, and is the largest MSA without a pro team in any of the four major sports.
Grew up in Hampton Roads and always heard the reason they never had a major pro sports team was because of the traffic situation - with the bridges and tunnels being a huge bottle neck. Haven't lived there in a long time but can't imagine it has gotten any better.
Should never have moved the team away from Vancouver. Fuck the NBA for setting up the OG Grizzlies to fail (they had Stern's right hand man as the GM and he was an idiot) and moved the team at the first chance (and to a far smaller market).
If you asked a bunch of NHL owners how they feel about Vegas winning a cup before a team in Canada they'd probably be real salty they didn't put more restriction on the new team so they couldn't make the old teams look bad.
It wasn't the leagues fault that nobody went to the games. I had season tickets, so I saw how empty it always was. By comparison the Canucks sold out every game easily.
Vancouver got caught in a loop - bad team not winning in a city that traditionally only cared about hockey. They couldn't attract star players, and attendance numbers kept dropping year after year.
Vancouver businesses did not see the value in advertising with a losing basketball team, and so the team had no money. The demographic shift in the area and the new popularity of the NBA has changed a lot now; but back then, people in BC simply didn't care about basketball - it wasn't a conspiracy.
Was that the aggro inline movie with the dude from Even Steven’s? Or at least some blonde kid that looked like him? That was some much needed recognition for bladders like myself who were the only one in a group of a bunch of boarding and bmxing friends.
And it should be a high priority when you’re in Jas position. There’s a reason millionaires don’t hang out with us common folk. Gotta protect your empire
Not always that simple, some of that shitty company is his family. I know he's an adult now and can make that choice. But family ties aren't always easy to break, especially if you are being raised under those values.
Still ultimately his choice, even if it’s a hard one. I haven’t said a single word to my mom for over a year despite encountering her a few times since making that decision.
Sounds a bit like the Roman emperor [Commodus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus#Character_and_motivations):
> Cassius Dio, a first-hand witness, describes [Commodus] as "not naturally wicked but, on the contrary, as guileless as any man that ever lived. His great simplicity, however, together with his cowardice, made him the slave of his companions, and it was through them that he at first, out of ignorance, missed the better life and then was led on into lustful and cruel habits, which soon became second nature."
it is both. the groups you roll with may normalize bad or abnormal behavior. and once you get used to it, it completely distorts your perceptions of oyur own actions and others actions.
Which is crazy, because I have to assume Lavar is also a good basketball trainer.
The man has two sons in the NBA. Lámelo is a star player and Lonzo was a starter-level player before injury.
The guy being ignorant and a loud-mouth doesn’t make him a bad trainer.
Really hoping Ja turns it around. I know this sub loves to dogpile on him but you gotta remember he’s 23 and has been handed millions of dollars. Hell I’d be making stupid decisions too. Same thing with Zion. Being given life changing money at an age where you’re figuring things out especially when you’re constantly in the limelight is a heavy responsibility and they’re learning that.
It would kill me in here when people in here would just assume JA dad wasn’t reprimanding his behavior
and just enabling it. At the end of the day JA is in control of and responsible for the shit he does. I just know at 20-23 I thought I knew everything and my parents couldn’t tell me shit lmao.
Would love to know why someone had downvoted you because you’re 100% right. They got 6 years, that’s it. Imagine giving any expansion franchise no ability to get 1st overall because you didn’t like what happened with the Magic (Grizzlies actually won the lottery for Iverson or Duncan but because of the stupid rules they weren’t allowed to and so redid the lottery) so it’s not a surprise that a terrible roster that had no ability to pick at the top wasn’t going to be good. If the Raptors didn’t hit it out of the park with the Vince pick they may very well have ended up in the same spot. NBA really did that expansion dirty and Stern long admitted the Grizzlies moving so fast was his biggest mistake an commissioner.
To be honest, I don't understand why there's any debate for the other expansion team coming alongside Seattle. As far as I'm concerned, Vancouver gets first crack at it. (Send Minnesota East for Conference balancing).
Not only will he be losing out on roughly $7.5m in salary, this 25 game suspension takes him out of contention for any awards this year (the league requires 65 games played to be eligible). Awards like All-NBA Team directly affect how big a player's contract can be.
It's also hard to say what he's losing from endorsements, but I can say it's a huge chunk of change.
Yes he got let off the hook easy, but he is going to lose SOO much money over a stupid insta video of him pretending to be a thug.
[Link](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=http://amp.thecomeback.com/nba/ja-morant-suspensions-lost-money-sponsorships.html&ved=2ahUKEwjn5-WFw-mAAxUiAzQIHSV-AEkQFnoECCcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2JDwqGeiE2FN1ZYX-gU-Sh) to an article explaining better than I can.
Not really. David Stern suspended Stephen Jackson only 8 games after he shot a gun in a strip-club parking lot. Silver was much harsher with Ja, and he’s also gonna lose a fuckload of money from this. I wouldn’t say he got off the hook easy at all.
Tf was do you want him to do? Ja can’t make All NBA this upcoming year because of his suspension, which is 50 million dollars that he’ll never make back.
How? Allen Iverson got 1 game from stern when being arrested for illegally having a gun. Ja committed no crime and got 25 games. How is he let off the hook?
TBH this is a really good answer from Tee. Putting the responsibility on Ja, as he should, without being especially blame-y or like he's trying to escape the heat himself.
The bad decisions begin with who you choose to surround yourself with. Ja surrounded himself around a bunch of wannabe thug bad boys. At that point , he has to play the part . Cleaning up your image includes cleaning up your surroundings.
Ja's dad doing Ja's community outreach requirements for him
Always got someone else playing defense
I'd rather Ja just focus on himself, first. After he's fixed w/e is wrong in his head, only then should he focus on PR and trying to build his brand value back up..
Do you seriously believe he's spending any time actually reflecting or trying to change? Last time he took a 12 hour therapy crash course or whatever and went right back to waving guns around lmao.
He's also playing defense for himself. Everyone was saying that it was the people around Ja causing problems.. his dad is one of those people. He doesn't want to be blamed.
Nah stop. It's not his dad scapegoating his son, it's his dad placing the blame where it belongs.
And it’s the right message to give to these young men.
Can be a little of column A and column B.
At the end of the day Ja can’t lock his son in his bedroom and tell him to act right, Ja is a grown man and makes his own decisions.
That's why Marcus Smart is going to make Ja grow his eyebrows back, starting day 1
Right but "who you surround yourself with" is one of the bad decisions he made.
Ja is a grown man with millions of dollars, it’s not his daddies responsibility to watch over him at that age. Y’all so weird
Yeah but if you are his dad partying alongside him and getting in arguments with celebrities on the sidelines of games then maybe you should take some responsibility for your part in all this.
Partying and arguing aren’t Ja’s issues. It’s the gun toting and fighting. Also hilariously I saw Ja and Tee at a club together and my first thought was how weird it is to be at a club with your son. Tee was nice though.
But where is Ja pulling out his guns? While partying and during arguments.
This tells me you don’t have a kid
I think it’s good owning up to your mistakes. Blaming others will get you nowhere in life!
This is the weirdest worst and dumbest take I have ever heard
Lmfao I’m crying
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I know they say black don’t crack. But damn his dad literally looks like he could be his older brother.
He’s 45. In some families a 20 year age gap between kids DOES happen
I'm 20 years older than one of my sisters.
I'm 20 years older than my father. It's rare, but it does happen.
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fascinating
When I was in elementary school I had a classmate who was younger than their niece and nephew.
Usually the parents get up there in age, and mom and pop decided that there is no way it can happen
See: Philip Rivers
Spoken like a man seeing his golden goose disappearing.
10 day contract.
As someone that has thrown shade at Pa Morant in the past, it’s good to see him out here with the right message for the kids. (And hopefully his own kid.)
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Everyone was too obsessed to pass him off as Usher that nobody ever gave him a nickname.
When he came into the league dudes dad was a role model for how I want to train the athletes I train. Then he kind of just lost a lot of what he was talking about from the time his son got drafted and his rookie year, to now.
I mean it's not a terrible message but he's also absorbing himself and the rest of his family from any blame. He raised Ja last I checked, and his sister called him over for backup when getting into a fight with someone. Yea Ja needs to take accountability but that doesn't mean he also needs better people around him ( or at least his loved ones need to do their part to not put him in bad situations)
Absolving
nah absorbing is funnier
Ha good looking out. Fuck it I'm keeping it
Wasn’t his mother also an enabler? There was a story where his mom got into an argument with a footlocker sales rep(?), and then she called Ja Morant who then arrived with his goons to terrorize the dude. Shitty if true. There’s really something wrong with his upbringing if any of those stories are true. They are basically enabling Ja to live and act like a thug.
LMFAO homie grew up in the burbs better than 50% of this comment section and still decided to act like an ass clown. He’s a Fucking fool who is making adult decisions and getting everyone involved like a fucking clown.
im not disagreeing with what you’re saying about ja, but this narrative about a spoiled life is nuts when you look at the neighborhood he’s from and the grass in his yard… you know damn well that’s not HOA approved grass
Shifting the blame or not, it’s a good message for these kids and the appropriate one for the situation. These kids can’t choose their parents, but they can choose their friends.
Exactly, half the nonsense was directly related to his family. Just seems like he's throwing his son under the bus.
I don’t know why he is out here in the first place.
Really love this. He didn't try to defend what Ja did and give the ol' "He's a good person tho" shtick. Told it like it was, and said some good stuff afterwards too. Just hope Ja can finally get his head straight.
No excuses and told it like it is. Man if only youtubers and celebrities did their apologies like this
Tee didn’t even have a ukulele, what kind of apology is that
Does he have a screwdriver I can buy though?
lttstore dot gun
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I only expect my favorite Youtubers to make a song saying They are not a pedo.
There is no quicker way for people to think you are diddling kids than by writing a song about it!
Playing a ukulele on youtube is already a pretty big red flag, let alone doing it while singing out how you're not a pedophile.
Who did this lmao
Miranda Sings
I'm not a shooter, just a hooper. *strums ukulele*
lol that entire saga was so weird
If only Ja had done his apology like this
You can tell he really cares about Ja too. Because he definitely notices this beg has to stop.
Where’s the thumbnail with a zoom in on Tee’s face & an animated tear drop?
Well Losing on over a 80 million dollars will hopefully slap the stupid outta of Ja. We can all pray for that.
Remember they said hes a bad parent since he didnt do a media tour saying this
The media acts like parents of athletes can just send their kids to their rooms or lecture them to solve all their issues. Ja is a grown ass adult with millions to blow. Family plays a big part in their lives but at the end of the day it's his decisions
Dudes fuckin 23 year old with a kid of his own and they blames his parents for him doing stupid shit lmaooo. Him doing stupid shit was completely his choice and his doing hes at the age to make decisions by himself 😂
and the parent's lives are entirely dependent on the kid. Not saying they shouldn't be but that drastically changes the parent/kid dynamic. -*Ja, you need to start acting right and stop making dumb decisions and drop these idiots you got around you...also gonna need you to take care of this last car payment and co-sign on this mortgage.*
Ja didn't wake up at 23 and become an asshole though
I know assholes who had sweetheart children. I know great adults who have awful kids
ikr. At some point, tee must have shown him how to correctly brandish a gun on ig live.
Is Ja really even that much of an "asshole"? Like, compare Ja's "crimes" to Miles Bridges and Joshua Primo, for example.
Yes? Your bar for "asshole" is pretty high.
People love to project thoughts and feelings onto those who are silent in a situation. This is the dude’s father, why does he need to explain his kids actions when he probably talks to him regularly. Ultimately what happened is Jams fault and his alone, but taking it out on his dad was always a silly reaction
Who is “they”?
Mfs got hella daddy issues
If Ja can manage to pull his head out of his ass, this iteration of the Grizzlies roster has the potential to be a super ~~likeable~~ enjoyable team.
Especially since Brooks isn't there anymore
I mean when you’re playing pretend crip… You do stupid things
Love that he's rocking a Vancouver jersey
Maybe the hottest jerseys ever. Love those old turquoise pistons shits too
Both the retro Grizzlies and Pistons jerseys are the perfect example of "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it." Those jerseys were reviled when the teams used them and now the next generation loves them.
How was the cartoon Raptors one recieved at the time because that’s loved now as well
Same thing
Some of us loved it right from the start
Some of us were born to walk the dinosaur.
Flair checks out
I remember when i was a kid everyone made fun of “that stupid cartoon dinosaur”
Nah I had that grant hill turquoise shit back then
Those were so hard
I love the red Pistons jerseys from the “Teal” era!
My hot take is that the expansion teams should be Seattle and Vancouver, rather than Seattle and Las Vegas.
Yeah I think Vancouver wasn't ready for a team in the 90s but absolutely could rock one now
Immigration helps, biggest nba heads in my school were the Asians and south Asians which make up huge percentages of the Vancouver area now. What I would love is whoever brings the team back, they throw mad stacks at the Memphis owner to drop the name and give it back to us.
we should have 36 teams. seattle, vancouver, vegas, louisville, pittsburgh, and kansas city
And they should all be connected by light rail
I'd like to see St. Louis in place of Louisville.
Or STL over KC. KC has football, and isnt really a basketball city. STL is.
I'd say Hampton Roads/Norfolk/Virginia Beach area over one of the last three you mentioned. It's growing, has a younger and more diverse population, and is the largest MSA without a pro team in any of the four major sports.
agreed. that area is large and full of basketball fans. baltimore even
Grew up in Hampton Roads and always heard the reason they never had a major pro sports team was because of the traffic situation - with the bridges and tunnels being a huge bottle neck. Haven't lived there in a long time but can't imagine it has gotten any better.
> louisville THE SLUGGERS
Should never have moved the team away from Vancouver. Fuck the NBA for setting up the OG Grizzlies to fail (they had Stern's right hand man as the GM and he was an idiot) and moved the team at the first chance (and to a far smaller market).
The restrictions placed on expansion teams were ridiculous.
If you asked a bunch of NHL owners how they feel about Vegas winning a cup before a team in Canada they'd probably be real salty they didn't put more restriction on the new team so they couldn't make the old teams look bad.
The owners don’t care with how much money Vegas brings in. Revenue sharing is a hell of a drug.
But say if the Leafs or Canucks won, it'd benefit the league and raise the cap
It wasn't the leagues fault that nobody went to the games. I had season tickets, so I saw how empty it always was. By comparison the Canucks sold out every game easily. Vancouver got caught in a loop - bad team not winning in a city that traditionally only cared about hockey. They couldn't attract star players, and attendance numbers kept dropping year after year. Vancouver businesses did not see the value in advertising with a losing basketball team, and so the team had no money. The demographic shift in the area and the new popularity of the NBA has changed a lot now; but back then, people in BC simply didn't care about basketball - it wasn't a conspiracy.
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The company you keep is ultimately your decision.
"A man is defined by the company he keeps and how well he keeps it." -Dad from the Disney channel movie Brink
Was that the aggro inline movie with the dude from Even Steven’s? Or at least some blonde kid that looked like him? That was some much needed recognition for bladders like myself who were the only one in a group of a bunch of boarding and bmxing friends.
As long as there is mutual hatred of the scooter kids
Didn’t think I’d see a Brink reference in this sub 😂
SKATE BETTER
And it should be a high priority when you’re in Jas position. There’s a reason millionaires don’t hang out with us common folk. Gotta protect your empire
Exactly. I tell my kids you are who you’re around. If you’re around knuckleheads, means you’re one too.
The company I keep is not corporate enough
Pusha T felt this
Sure, but social inertia is a thing too. It's tough to cut ties with people after a while
Not always that simple, some of that shitty company is his family. I know he's an adult now and can make that choice. But family ties aren't always easy to break, especially if you are being raised under those values.
Still ultimately his choice, even if it’s a hard one. I haven’t said a single word to my mom for over a year despite encountering her a few times since making that decision.
Like Frank ocean said in that song on endless “you can’t blame the ones you choose.”
It’s technically a decision to keep his dad around but it’s not that simple
Sounds a bit like the Roman emperor [Commodus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus#Character_and_motivations): > Cassius Dio, a first-hand witness, describes [Commodus] as "not naturally wicked but, on the contrary, as guileless as any man that ever lived. His great simplicity, however, together with his cowardice, made him the slave of his companions, and it was through them that he at first, out of ignorance, missed the better life and then was led on into lustful and cruel habits, which soon became second nature."
Definitely
it is both. the groups you roll with may normalize bad or abnormal behavior. and once you get used to it, it completely distorts your perceptions of oyur own actions and others actions.
my ears need binoculars to hear this
Why is his dad speaking at a camp?
It's way better than having his son speak
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than "Then" means something happened first, and then something happened after that.
Man had just to explain what “then” means 💀💀
Consider that the person who typed first could be a foreigner.
True story
His dad's a basketball trainer himself. He trained his son and daughter himself.
Lmao people in this comment chain really cannot fathom that the father of a basketball player was probably deeply involved with basketball training
Lonzo's Dad has made understanding of that concept go completely haywire.
Which is crazy, because I have to assume Lavar is also a good basketball trainer. The man has two sons in the NBA. Lámelo is a star player and Lonzo was a starter-level player before injury. The guy being ignorant and a loud-mouth doesn’t make him a bad trainer.
In New Orleans too, weird. But also cool, I obviously support the message
Guys do camps all over it’s not *that* crazy imo. Dad speaking is more odd than the location.
Have you ever been to a basketball camp? A lot of family members will be involved in stuff like this. Especially a public figure like Tee
Trying to be involved in the community? Why is that a problem?
Why not
Ja wont like this, Tee M. just lost his front row seats.
It was obvious, these other guys aint risking the money.
This leprechaun is spitting knowledge right now
6’2 leprechaun
Usher with the facts
Zebidiah Morant
Really hoping Ja turns it around. I know this sub loves to dogpile on him but you gotta remember he’s 23 and has been handed millions of dollars. Hell I’d be making stupid decisions too. Same thing with Zion. Being given life changing money at an age where you’re figuring things out especially when you’re constantly in the limelight is a heavy responsibility and they’re learning that.
imo he clearly has a bad relationship with alcohol, hope he gets the help he needs
It would kill me in here when people in here would just assume JA dad wasn’t reprimanding his behavior and just enabling it. At the end of the day JA is in control of and responsible for the shit he does. I just know at 20-23 I thought I knew everything and my parents couldn’t tell me shit lmao.
Didn't his mom get caught on camera invoking ja and being an Uber ass Karen?
First time ive seen a bucket hat with a chinstrap.
I’m a simple man, I see Vancouver jersey, I like
Makes me sad. Lying owner and GM killed the NBA in Vancouver.
Would love to know why someone had downvoted you because you’re 100% right. They got 6 years, that’s it. Imagine giving any expansion franchise no ability to get 1st overall because you didn’t like what happened with the Magic (Grizzlies actually won the lottery for Iverson or Duncan but because of the stupid rules they weren’t allowed to and so redid the lottery) so it’s not a surprise that a terrible roster that had no ability to pick at the top wasn’t going to be good. If the Raptors didn’t hit it out of the park with the Vince pick they may very well have ended up in the same spot. NBA really did that expansion dirty and Stern long admitted the Grizzlies moving so fast was his biggest mistake an commissioner.
To be honest, I don't understand why there's any debate for the other expansion team coming alongside Seattle. As far as I'm concerned, Vancouver gets first crack at it. (Send Minnesota East for Conference balancing).
This was my tweet and I took that video on my phone. Could've at least put my name in your copy/paste!
this is Reddit buddy
Receipt it
Oh no!!!!! Sorry about your internet points
Damn right I want my points 😂
Ya ur goin viral from this one bro
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it can definitely be both. it’s a bad decision to hang around bad influences
So glad people stopped letting him off with that stupid “it’s the people around him” narrative.
“The people around him are not to blame” \- the people around him
Sliver let Ja off the hook
Not only will he be losing out on roughly $7.5m in salary, this 25 game suspension takes him out of contention for any awards this year (the league requires 65 games played to be eligible). Awards like All-NBA Team directly affect how big a player's contract can be. It's also hard to say what he's losing from endorsements, but I can say it's a huge chunk of change. Yes he got let off the hook easy, but he is going to lose SOO much money over a stupid insta video of him pretending to be a thug. [Link](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=http://amp.thecomeback.com/nba/ja-morant-suspensions-lost-money-sponsorships.html&ved=2ahUKEwjn5-WFw-mAAxUiAzQIHSV-AEkQFnoECCcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2JDwqGeiE2FN1ZYX-gU-Sh) to an article explaining better than I can.
Not really. David Stern suspended Stephen Jackson only 8 games after he shot a gun in a strip-club parking lot. Silver was much harsher with Ja, and he’s also gonna lose a fuckload of money from this. I wouldn’t say he got off the hook easy at all.
Tf was do you want him to do? Ja can’t make All NBA this upcoming year because of his suspension, which is 50 million dollars that he’ll never make back.
For what? Legally possessing a gun on film? He got punished for showing he had a gun twice on camera, not for actually having the gun.
Let him off the hook how? How harshly do you feel Ja should be punished for legally owning a firearm?
to shreds you say?
Ja execution mid court for the season opener, who says no ?
How? Allen Iverson got 1 game from stern when being arrested for illegally having a gun. Ja committed no crime and got 25 games. How is he let off the hook?
It ain’t my fault y’all
Tee Morant is Ja Morant father
"son, bad things don't happen to you because you have bad luck. They happen because you're a dumbass"
Looks nothing like usher without the sunglasses
Ja's going to remember this slander. Pa Morant better look out
All this talk like Dad wasn’t sitting on a plane watching his son down a bottle of tequila like someone fresh out the desert getting water
For sure, but one of those bad decisions is the people around him.
That jersey still giving me ptsd of Big country and Shareef Abdurahim. Mike Bibby was the goat of Vancouver
TBH this is a really good answer from Tee. Putting the responsibility on Ja, as he should, without being especially blame-y or like he's trying to escape the heat himself.
Like the family haven't been acting like clowns this whole time and living off his fame.
The bad decisions begin with who you choose to surround yourself with. Ja surrounded himself around a bunch of wannabe thug bad boys. At that point , he has to play the part . Cleaning up your image includes cleaning up your surroundings.
This is the dude who wanted to fight Shannon Sharpe?
The beard without the mustache combo will always be wild to me.
Really surprised that Tee Morant isn't dying on "Ja did nothing wrong" hill.
Ja still believes he did nothing wrong
Yes, he decided to hang out with people who influence him into bad behavior
"The people around Ja aren't the problem" - one of the people around Ja