He’s entered the unc phase and embraced it.

Klay deadass dropped the Uncle Ben on Ja lmao

no kidding, Ja wanted the immature back and forth. Mr I’m good in the west hasn’t gone past the 2nd round and now spends his day doing the griddy from the bench with davonte pack.

One of the most electrifying talents and klay is right, incredibly unlikable disrespectful arrogant dude. I used to compare him to AI as in he didn’t ask to be the face type, but AI was always respectful of his peers and got respect, he always gave flowers to those he competed again and then on the court battled.

Ja is now 26, I agree with Klay his talent is unique people can still grow at this age but this dude is a full blown adult with the mind of a 13 year old suburbia gangster…really pulled up to a mall and a hs game to confront shit talkers with his posse.

That draft is going to be an interesting 30 for 30, Out of this world exciting talents butone couldn’t put down beignets and one couldn’t put down letting NBA youngboy be his inner voice.

There is nothing Ja can say to this at the moment

LMAO. THIS IS SO ACCURATE

Hit him with the Uncle Ben line

Klay hit him with the “With great power comes great responsibility” speech 😂

Klay cooked the shit out of him

Ja “fine in the west” Morant doesn’t really have self awareness

It was destroyed a few years ago tbh, he peaked in 2022 and then got injured, got worst in almost all facets of the game and that doesn’t even account for any off the court stuff

Klay said bless his heart

The full response was actually way funnier than what I was expecting given the title of this post

Should have pulled out a version of Brian Scalibrine’s line…

His career achievements are closer to yours (reporter) than they are to mine. 

“stop hitting yourself” energy from big bro type shit. Damn cold-blooded

He flipped the script real quick

A very mature way to handle it while simultaneously destroying him. It hurts because it’s the truth.

Exactly what I expected from him. I love to see it.

Zion ran in yelling, “Where?”

It’s damn near worse than the actual ass whooping 😂

You love to see it

The thing is Ja had “face of the NBA” right there for him to. Exciting player who is among most athletic is the league, came of the seen as a overlooked prospect at a small school and immediately made an impact in the league.

And then Ja let all the dumb things get in the way. People can brush off the injuries but all the off the court nonsense basically keeping him from being the guy who took the mantle from the old guard as face of US Basketball.

been a while since we got a good “Beef History”

We need guys like Ja not be beefing more than they’re playing. I’d take Ja balling out over whatever this one-sided braindead beef is.

This is a pretty disrespectful response from klay if you read between the lines. This isn’t him shying away from the beef.

grown ass men wanting drama. Dont want to hear reddit say they are above this or any talkshow.

this is a pretty savage answer, just read between the lines

Wddym it’s a thoughtful answer as well as an embarrassing one for Ja

This is beyond measured from Klay. He got mad at some Pistons role player and said he’d be out of the league soon on the broadcast. Klay kinda likes Ja I think.

UNC Klay cooked him here, what do you want? Lol.

Ja trying to bully a dude at the end of his career.

Ja is a mad disappointment.

He should go beef with some peers in his age bracket, hah

“Bitch ass Memphis” was overheard as Klay was walking through the tunnel lmao 

Yep. I also remember towards the end at some point Steph got a block as well XD

Klay didn’t hold back

Better to be a has been than a never was

He tore his ACL, recovered, then immediately tore his ACHILLES. And he STILL came back. Calling him a bum is as Klay described: no intelligent depth.

I’d argue if Klay never got hurt the Raptors never win a title, Klay was cooking that series

Klay has done more in his career than 99 percent of players could ever dream of. You could never call the guy a bum.

The 37 points in a quarter on 100% shooting (¹³⁄₁₃ FG, ⁹⁄₉ 3PT), is the most insane thing I’ve ever watched in basketball and I don’t think it’ll ever be topped

off topic but it’s insane we have to do an extra 4 steps to post things now instead of using X.. no NBA reporters use BlueSky mods :(

I’m automatically on Klay’s side but you know he got his feelings hurt lol

Klay is 4x the player Morant will ever possibly be.

Idc about the team I just enjoy players in any sport not liking each other and going at it. Makes shit more fun.(As long as it not dirty stuff that can lead to injuries)

Even if Klay is indeed a bum now, Morant will not and can not achieve even a quarter of Klay’s accomplishments. Furthermore, Morant is and was a bum since the start. Destroyed his career due to his immaturity, and didn’t even try to learn from it.

Yea and when that 26 year old is garbage lately, likely to be traded, and his star is fading. 

Literally though

Klay is a no doubt hall of famer

Ja is a punchline

I would but only for the gun stuff

wow that’s a devastating truth. If Klay only played that one quarter he would mean more to the history of basketball than Ja ever will

Not just Nasty. 37 in a quarter Nasty.

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He’s a legend. Really appreciate how he stood up for Flagg tonight also.

Our whole fanbase still feels terrible for how Nico convinced Klay to come here and then rug-pulled him with the Luka trade (same with Naji Marshall as well). If we do trade him at the deadline, I hope we do him right on the way out and send him to a place he can play winning basketball like he originally intended with us.

Never forghetti, Morant did threaten (and assaulted?) a kid, right? Now that’s a real-life BUM.

Nah Klay is an actual adult, Ja only does that shit to kids.

I just don’t think he was ever really supposed to reach the height he did. He was a 0 star recruit who lucked into someone at Murray state discovering him and he worked his way to the 2nd pick, which is obviously impressive but I think he lost that drive to be great when he got paid and comfortable in the league as a superstar. Injuries and off the court stuff play a huge role as well but I feel like that nothing to something trajectory might have went to his head. 

I also know nothing just a thought

I see everyone agreeing with Klay. What are you yapping about?

Klay definitely gets salty and starts chirping but he has never crossed the line, never had off court issues, was always a competitor and always played hard on both ends.

I can’t think of a single play of him that was dirty which is incredibly rare for someone who was known for being a great defender for the majority of his career.

a morally bankrupt poor man’s rose

Rose was always respectful and had the respect of his peers

the dude let his game do the talking period. Didn’t even celebrate the game winner. he was a rare breed.

but yes, ja’s game is electrifying, but boy talk about immaturity. He’s from the sideline, where he spent hte last couple seasons when they let him, talking shit to a guy whose knocked him out of the playoffs multiple times and in rarified air as a 4 time champion who did it on both ends but is on the twilight of his career. where as Ja has as much rings as his boys Davonte Pack and NBa Youngboy

Besides Ja, who exactly do you perceive as a mouth runner on our current roster? Genuinely curious.