[Highlight] Ja Morant lands hard on his left gip, after Lu Dort attempts to contest him and cuts him in mid-air. Ja remains on the floor for the free throws, misses both, and takes off his jersey in frustration as he heads to the locker room. Full incident and aftermath, with replays.

24 comments

1. I made sure to capture the entire incident + sequence + reactions, so it took a bit longer.

   Edit: hip* not gip >_> damn you long fingers for the typo

2. Not the gip

3. Really hope he is okay

4. Not a fan of Lu Dort at all and I *do* think he’s dirty. However I’m not sure what he could’ve done in this situation. Seems unintentional

5. hate this for Ja, probably my favorite non-Buck in the league. Hope he’s back healthy and quick.

6. God that looked painful. Hope he’s okay.

7. Ja gonna pull out the tanks for this one 

8. Didn’t even do the “my bad bro”… just slowly walks away like no one would notice…

9. Out of curiosity can we get Magic fans input on this one?

10. This was so tough to watch. Really hope it’s not too bad and he can recover quickly.

11. Dort stops, turns around, slips as he turns, and attempts to contest the shot while keeping his feet all in the span of a second. People think he was able to do all of that and make a conscious decision instead of just acting on instinct. Not to mention, he put his arms up to contest the shot while Ja was still on the ground

    He attempted to play defense and slipped while Ja tried to dunk on him. Shit sucks, but there’s no fault here

12. Looks like his hips bounced off the court. No bueno

13. Why the hell did Pippen not go for the layup

14. This doesn’t feel intentional at all. He’s slipping while turning around and tries to foul/swipe the ball away right before Ja takes off. Even if Dorts hands don’t go up, Ja is on a crash course with Dorts shoulder or head.

15. I’ve never seen a comment thread so split. It’s like the perfect storm of Dort with his history of hard defensive/dirty plays and Ja with his history of trying to dunk on people. Can both be true here? I don’t know.

16. Ja thought he was Olympic VC for a moment.

17. Not good. Landed on his pistol grip.

18. And now his team blew the huge lead. Insult to injury.

19. Genuinely not taking history into account how could you possibly say this is a dirty play. Dort turns around slips and ja tries to dunk on him while he’s contesting the shot

20. So is the defender supposed to just get out of the way any time Ja goes up for a dunk?

21. Ja got hit by his grenade’s shrapnels

22. This is becoming a trend. Super stars are going so hard for that poster dunk, they are negating their own safety. Responsible basketball is a thing. Respect it.

23. This is just an unfortunate situation, don’t was already in front of ja and didn’t have time to move

24. If anyone made a bad split second decision, it was Ja. He decides to try to jump over a guy who’s slipping and falling backwards.