After seeing Memphis Grizzlies All-Star Ja Morant in yet one more Instagram Reside video holding a firearm, NBA commissioner Adam Silver was “shocked.”
Silver spoke with ESPN’s Malika Andrews in regards to the state of affairs that comes simply two months after Morant was suspended eight video games for doing the identical factor on his personal Instagram account whereas at a nightclub. This time, Morant was caught on a good friend’s Instagram account whereas they had been in a automotive collectively.
“Truthfully, I used to be shocked once I noticed this weekend that video,” Silver stated from the NBA Draft Lottery Tuesday. “Now, we’re within the technique of investigating it, and we’ll determine precisely what occurred to the perfect we are able to. The video is a bit grainy and all that, however I am assuming the worst.”
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Ja Morant attends Saturday Nights at Sound Nightclub on Could 6, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Prince Williams/WireImage)
The Instagram account belonged to Morant’s good friend, Davonte Pack, who was additionally concerned in a number of off-the-court situations that the league has investigated. He was additionally banned from Grizzlies video games for one yr after getting concerned in a post-game altercation with the Indiana Pacers on Jan. 29.
At the moment, the Pacers claimed they noticed a pink laser pointed at them from an SUV the place Morant was inside. Nonetheless, the league’s investigation “couldn’t corroborate that any particular person threatened others with a weapon.”
Morant’s first incident with a handgun got here whereas intoxicated at a membership whereas in Denver to face the Nuggets.
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Morant enrolled in a counseling facility in Florida. There, Morant was set to study how one can higher handle stress.
He later traveled to New York Metropolis to satisfy with Silver, which got here 11 days after the incident in Denver.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addresses the media throughout a press convention after the Board of Governors Assembly on September 14, 2022 on the St. Regis Lodge in New York Metropolis. (David Dow/NBAE through Getty Picture)
After the assembly, Silver laid down his punishment: Eight video games suspended with out pay. Silver known as Morant’s actions “irresponsible, reckless and probably very harmful.”
“Earlier than we bought to a subsequent potential to have completed one thing flawed, we had been very centered on the misconduct that was in entrance of us on the time,” Silver stated on Tuesday, through ESPN. “Frankly, most of our dialog was about how extremely critical the primary incident was of waving a firearm on social media.
“In opposition to, the implications there — an eight-game suspension — was fairly critical and one thing that he, at the very least to me, appeared to take extremely critically in that point. And we spoke for a very long time about not simply the implications that would have on his profession, however the questions of safety round it – [Morant] might’ve injured, maimed, killed himself, another person with an act like that – and likewise the acknowledgment that he’s a star. He has an extremely big following, and [we discussed] my concern — and I assumed he shared with me — that thousands and thousands, if not tens of thousands and thousands, of youngsters globally would have seen him do one thing that was celebrating in a approach that act of utilizing a firearm in that trend.”
Ja Morant poses with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver after being drafted with the second general choose by the Memphis Grizzlies through the 2019 NBA Draft on the Barclays Middle on June 20, 2019 within the Brooklyn borough of New York Metropolis. (Sarah Stier/Getty Pictures)
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Whereas the NBA investigates Morant’s incident, the Grizzlies have suspended him from all staff actions pending the league’s overview.
