Ja Morant should be suspended for ‘all of next season,’ ex-Grizzlies player says

Chandler Parsons, a former NBA guard who made the All-Rookie Group in 2012, known as for extreme punishment for Ja Morant after he was seen flashing a gun on an Instagram Stay video Saturday.

The Memphis Grizzlies suspended Morant from all team activities because the NBA investigates the state of affairs. Morant hasn’t commented on the most recent incident.

Parsons, who performed for the Grizzlies from 2016 to 2019, known as for the NBA to droop Morant for the complete 2023-2024 season. Morant was already suspended eight video games after his first gun incident again in March.

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Atlanta Hawks ahead Chandler Parsons talks with reporters through the staff’s media day on September 30, 2019, at Emory Sports activities Drugs Complicated in Atlanta. (Austin McAfee/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)

“[S]uspend him all of subsequent season,” Parsons wrote on a Bleacher Report Instagram publish.

The video in query confirmed Morant within the passenger seat dancing to some music with some pals. He then appeared to tug the gun out to indicate off for the digicam, and that’s when the buddy holding the telephone pulled it away from the Grizzlies level guard and confronted it towards his shoulder.

A photograph showing to indicate Morant with the weapon went viral round social media.

On Sunday morning, the Grizzlies introduced the Morant suspension.

“We’re conscious of the social media publish involving Ja Morant and are within the means of gathering extra data,” NBA spokesperson Mike Bass advised The Athletic.

Morant has been within the highlight over the course of the season over a number of experiences that accused him of wrongdoing. He was by no means charged in any of the incidents, however it all got here to a boiling level earlier this yr when he was seen holding a gun in a Denver nightclub.

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He was suspended eight video games in March and checked himself right into a clinic for stress administration.

After the Grizzlies had been eradicated from the playoffs, Morant acknowledged the off-court incidents could have led to a distracted staff.

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports activities)

“I’ve simply acquired to be higher with my decision-making,” Morant mentioned through ESPN final month. “That is just about it. Off-the-court points affected us as a corporation just about. Simply [need] extra self-discipline.”

It was one of some points that got here to gentle.

The Indiana Pacers mentioned that after an altercation between associates of Morant and the Pacers in January, a crimson laser was pointed on the staff from an SUV that was carrying Morant, which the Pacers believed was a gun. The NBA investigated the incident and located that no “particular person threatened others with a weapon.”

In March, a police report mentioned Morant uncovered a gun after punching an adolescent final summer time.

In a report by the Washington Submit, Morant allegedly punched the teenager within the head “12 to 13 occasions” in a pickup basketball sport at Morant’s home. In keeping with the report, Morant went into his home after the altercation and emerged with a gun in his waist and his hand on the weapon.

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (12) and ahead Xavier Tillman are proven throughout Sport 5 of the first-round playoff collection towards the Los Angeles Lakers at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 26, 2023. (Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports activities)

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“I really feel like mine is extra off the court docket and on the court docket – simply being disciplined either side,” Morant mentioned final month. “Off the court docket, making higher choices. On the court docket, being locked in much more. Being a frontrunner of this staff, it just about begins with me. So, nonetheless I assault any state of affairs, I do know my guys will comply with. I’ve simply acquired to be higher in that space.”

Fox Information’ Joe Morgan contributed to this report.