{"id":809717,"date":"2026-08-12T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/809717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:33:18","slug":"absolutely-ridiculous-ja-morants-new-250k-purchase-has-nba-fans-in-disbelief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/809717\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absolutely ridiculous\u2019 \u2013 Ja Morant\u2019s new $250K purchase has NBA fans in disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NBA star Ja Morant has turned heads with a new $250K fashion investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ja Morant is all set to begin a new chapter in his career after the Memphis Grizzlies traded him to the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While Morant is yet to play for the Trail Blazers, the former second-overall pick already has fans talking about him, albeit for a non-basketball reason.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by Soobum Im\/Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/hitc_articles_832\/9514f432012d211bff0c5710d14e5f8c.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Soobum Im\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>NBA fans react to Ja Morant showing his $250K grill<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A video of Morant went viral where the Trail Blazers guard showcased his $250K grill. As expected, fans had a lot to say, but the general reaction wasn&#8217;t in favor of Morant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That grill is absolutely ridiculous,&#8221; a fan wrote. While another added, &#8220;Then we have players complaining they don&#8217;t get enough money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;C&#8217;mon, Ja. This can&#8217;t be real,&#8221; a third fan stated. &#8220;$250K on a grill just to make every smile look like a flashbang,&#8221; a fourth fan mocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That&#8217;s why these clowns go bankrupt once they retire,&#8221; a fifth fan pointed out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Morant is set to make more than $42.1 million from his NBA salary alone next season. So, a $250K investment may look small, but the majority of fans still called out the 27-year-old for wasting his money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA star Ja Morant has turned heads with a new $250K fashion investment. Ja Morant is all set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,178,177,6,17867,687,471,3967,26825,1617],"class_list":["post-809717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-ja-morant","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-nba-fans","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-the-trail-blazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117081381784204944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}