Like ik he’s done some real dumb shit but most guys in their early 20s do especially ones given tht much money that early. But holy shit man for the last 3 years it feels like the media has wanted him to walk off the earth. Granted he hasn’t done himself favors with some of his habits but Jesus

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  2. Like in all seriousness the down fall of the ja era was 30% him with the gun shit and the rest divided between Adam silver actively stopping them from having fun, the from office’s questionable decisions outside of the draft and the media wanting him in a bigger market.

  3. Not really. I still don’t fuck with all the 8 mile/Clarence, shooter puns and fine in the west bs that gets parroted on the main sub, that shit is just exhaustingly lame and I don’t regret defending Ja from that noise in the past. But Ja has not acted in a way that makes me feel bad for him as a person, do I have empathy for his injury history, yes, but he’s shown enough off the court to say he is fairly selfish so why shouldn’t we be, no hard feelings.

  9. Destroys an organization a whole city cares about deeply, mostly by choice, while acting like a piece of shit and actively making our community a worse place. All this while earning like 0.1% of Memphis’s entire GDP.

    No I don’t feel bad for him.

  14. No, most of his issues are self inflicted. Wether if I agree with it or not I can understand if the front office is tired of his act and ready to move on

  15. the gun stuff is whatever but how he’s treated the team in the last month and his teammates for that matter is not cool. we have given him so much more leeway than so many other teams would’ve already. he literally had the keys to the city and all he had to do was not throw a fit and try and get two coaches fired in a year.

    i’ve defended him generally, as people speak of him as a good teammate and a good father, but he’s way past his skis here and acting like a kid.

  16. Not really.  At the end of the day he hasn’t played up to expectations for several years and because of that the team has struggled.  Players get traded when that happens.

    He’s paid a lot a lot, all of the attention (good and bad) comes with that

  17. Until last week I was the biggest Ja defender of all. Then I finally hit the wall. I still feel bad for him that I know about 5 years from now he will realize he truly fucked up. There’s a chance his next team will give him his extension but literally all he had to do to get it here was to play 65 games with a positive attitude, sell his shoes and enjoy his urtlapriveleged life, but he wants us to believe he’s a victim. Gtfoh

  19. I can empathize with him cause he’s crashing out right now and can’t stop self sabotaging. But I don’t feel bad for him. He’s had chance after chance here and still doesn’t get it. I think this is best for everyone lol

  20. I feel bad for anyone who is struggling. His situation screams complicated family issues to me.

  21. No, this dude makes 40mil a year to play a game a few times a week. Sign me up. Ja is a man child and needs to grow the fuck up. Not happy with coaching because we are losing games? Let the coach get fired while doing what he says.

  22. I live in north Alabama and Kyle Rittenhouse is revered as a folk hero by folks calling Ja a thug, I am certain I have sat thru ads by Republican politicians shooting guns to prove their credibility during grizzlies games. The NBA has always been cool with 3 6 mafia doing halftime shows and I challenge you to find me an artist on an nba 2k soundtrack that couldn’t be said to be “promoting gun violence” if ja Morant was

    I agree in the videos that he showed poor gun safety in how he pointed the gun, but the critiques of the gun don’t center around there being a proper way for a black celebrity to hold a gun, all they do is they call him a fucking thug, meanwhile he lives in the epicenter of an area with the loosest gun laws in the country… and the angle is never legal! The angle is always a critique of what they call thugs.

    As a pro 2A southern white liberal I’m downright pissed that we’re not picking up the Ja Morant issue, anytime I wear the jersey I’m being questioned about him being a wannabe thug or something… my red neck friends aren’t famous but I promise they were taking the same pictures bro, and no one even thought to cancel them for it

    Gun violence is a real issue but the crowd calling for his suspension are rarely the folks that walked out of school in 2018 or the folks picketing… it’s the folks supporting the terrorists in ice.

    To some extent I agree that gun violence is an issue that Ja Morant was irresponsibly promoting too, but he’s a native son of the area where guns are handled this way. I’m downright pissed that he’s being held accountable when regular white folks aren’t and when black folks who make money for white folks by selling the image of gun violence aren’t being held accountable neither.

  23. Most, if not all, of Ja’s wounds are self-inflicted. Not talkin about his injuries either!

  25. yes. making that much money at such a young age and having so many people relying on you would be difficult to navigate. i don’t think that anyone can confidently say that they would be able to navigate it perfectly (and if you say you can, you’re lying). add onto that you’re also a very young father.

    that being said, with all that money comes access to a lot of resources. investing in a good PR system, having someone around that looks out for your interests and stops you from making mistakes that could tarnish your career/image/legacy whatever, can’t be understated. Ja literally has enough money to pay an opera singer to follow him around and sing **MISTAAAAKEEE** every time he’s about to do something silly, like in that one Scrubs episode. if he’s not utilising this kind of privilege to at the *very least* keep him from doing things that will hurt his employability in the NBA, it makes you wonder if he cares about having a long playing career.

    i can approach it all with some empathy because none of us know how we’d handle being millionaires and having random people you don’t even know picking you a part anytime you do anything… but at some point it goes from naivety to wilful ignorance, which makes it harder for people to give you the benefit of the doubt

  27. He’s a multi-millionaire who works the hours of a Dollar General part-time worker. No I don’t feel sorry for him.

  31. I don’t feel bad for super rich celebrities. Yes they do have problems but I’d rather focus on people who don’t have the means to fix their problems.

    I’m a more recent fan but I feel worse for Grizzlies fans who bought into him as the franchise savior. Sure the injuries weren’t his fault and likely had a bigger impact on him than just the time missed, but the off the court issues, lack of development, arrogant press conferences, and lack of effort on the court are not things fans of teams deserve.

  32. Other than him being bipolar no what are we talking about. Self awareness is a huge thing and doesn’t seem to have much now. And for the media being ridiculous to him will dry up the second he’s in a big market .

  33. The real shame is that his father and family did not help him improve his situation at all I mean, at least in my opinion that’s what it looks like

  34. Ja gotta grow up. I don’t know if it’s the ppl around him or him personally, but all of this could have been avoided if he had a higher level of maturity. He’s a father and one of the most marketable players this league has ever had, but the childishness of his antics has and will continue to cost his millions. He’s played 77 games in the last 3 years. That’s not superstar behavior. Hope wherever he goes, he gets his act together.

  38. Not at all his life is set regardless of how his NBA career pans out. Don’t forget these guys get paid millions upon billions to bounce a ball. Meanwhile we got people in Iran getting executed for standing up for a better standard of living.

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