"It's not that complicated. He did something. The league told him not to. He did it again immediately after. That's behavior you'd expect from a 3 year old, not a grown man." Memphis fans defend their star on r/nba after Ja Morant does a finger gun celebration

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1jrf8re/charania_the_nba_has_fined_memphis_ja_morant/

Context: Temetrious "Ja" Morant is the star player on the Memphis Grizzlies. In spite of his stable middle class upbringing, Ja enjoys cosplaying as a gangster, and after several incidents of him brandishing firearms in public (the most serious involving Ja and his entourage supposedly pointing firearms at the staff of another stadium), the NBA suspended him for 25 games. Two games ago, Ja mimed firing an assault rifle at the Warriors bench after the Grizzlies lost to the Warriors, and last game he mimed firing a gun, again.

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This dude is such a mental midget. Feel bad for grizz fans. Can't believe some of our fanbase wants this clown. EDIT. Don't feel bad bc of all the clown takes. Goodness

>I mean he's still a decent ball player who had a game winner last night.. The heck is this kind of overreaction?

Because he has character issues that makes him unreliable. He's been suspended on more than one occasions for gun related incidents and henstill can't help himself.

His character issues don't make him unreliable. His body does.

His character issues absolutely make him unreliable. He had to miss 25 games last year for this stuff, that's a lot.

He missed 25 games for finger guns?

>I agree about the feeling bad for them part. And if you try to ask them their true opinion, or tell them you'd be disappointed if your star player did this dumb little stuff, they just tell you you're dumb, a hater, you wouldn't get it, he's good for Memphis, etc.

I think he's dumb for continuing to do the finger guns, and if it were someone close to me I'd tell them that it's not a good look given your history and it's doing you no favors with public perception.

However, I think that's very different than the NBA selectively punishing you based on something you've already served your punishment for. That is where I think this is ridiculo

Bullshit. He literally was told not to do it bc he decided to be an immature idiot and post stuff online. Now he just said "frick you" to the league. It's just not a good look for a supposed adult. He's a loser human being

Think whatever you want about him and I agree he's clearly an immature guy. Public perception is what it is and thats one thing. That's very different than enacting selective punishments for a rule that doesn't even exist based on vibes. Either the gesture is acceptable for everyone or it's acceptable for no one, the NBA needs to choose.

Not how it works in the real world when you've done what he has done. The NBA has chosen. He can't do it.

The actual guns on IG live was one thing but this is complete bullshit. Such a non story.

>It's only because he did it again last night after the NBA warned him to not do it regarding game before against the Warriors

The warning was fricking stupid too.

Nah. You get flagged for that in the NFL and a fat fine the week after. Doing little pew pew guns is one thing but acting like you're aiming a whole butt machine gun or something is dumb. Just do a normal celebration.

WE'VE GOT THE FINGER GUN POLICE IN HERE HAHAHAHA

This is the problem. Memphis needs to get real. Ja barely plays basketball, then when he does, he's doing this. Yall gotta decide for yourselves what's important.

He literally got a warning before the game, he's lucky it isn't more.

>This whole thing of absolutely ridiculous I've seen finger guns countless times watching basketball

So if someone gets fined for it, I guess that means no one can do them now And the fact that Ja was stupid enough to be on camera waving around a gun doesn't mean that the entire nba should be banned from finger guns, that's nonsense logic. But it's going to have to be that way

have any of those players had a history of brandishing guns in public?

My point is literally that its either an illegal gesture or it's not. You can't have a rule that a gesture is only illegal if you've done x in the past that would be nonsense.

nope. incorrect. context is everything.

There's no way they're going to be able to do selective enforcement of gestures, period. Thats why there are things like the players association. You're just plain wrong.

I guess the league is making a distinction between the finger pistols (common) and the two-handed shotgun/rifle gesture? Or does it matter whether or not it's "pointed" at someone? Seems like whatever rule they settle on should be specific to the gesture rather than specific to the player.

>It's not that complicated. He did something. The league told him not to. He did it again immediately after. That's behavior you'd expect from a 3 year old, not a grown man.

"He did something. The league told him not to." My point is that it only makes sense to tell him not to if they're making it a league-wide rule.?

do any of those players have a history of brandishing guns in public

The NBA issued a warning yesterday to both Hield and Morant. It said nothing about Morant having brandished guns, which makes sense because Hield hasn't brandished guns. Today's announcement of the fine also doesn't mention Morant's past gun suspension.

nope. incorrect. context is everything.

Habitual line stepper. I like it

>I don't. It's incredibly annoying dealing with people like that.

You mean middle schoolers?

Lol what middle schoolers are you hanging out with and why? Edit: and what are they doing to you/are you safe?

This is why people hate redditors lmao

>3x the amount Draymond got fined for putting Rudy Gobert in a chokehold, and Dray is a habitual over the line stepper. Edit: I forgot Draymond was suspended for them 5 games, that's my bad.

Green actually got suspended, though

shoulda been banned from playing ever again, assaulting someone isnt even in the same field as finger guns lmao. idgaf who ja is off the court cause if that shit mattered half the pro athletes would be in jail.

You sound stupid af

This is ironically exactly what the team and the city needed to improve the mood after the quagmire the last month lol

>269 murders in the city of Memphis last year I'm sure the families of those who were gunned down are thrilled to see it being celebrated by pro athletes on TV. Must really improve their moods.

I bet you feel the exact same way about ads for violent video games, nerf guns, and every action movie ever. Get a fricking grip.

How ignorant are you lol

I'll take a little ignorance over the sanctimoneous horseshit people spew about Ja and guns. Not one person in these comments gives a dusty frick one way or the other about a finger gun celebration outside of Reddit.

It aint that deep lol Yall acting like this is some 1st amendment freedom fighter bs lol

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