Ja Morant: “Everybody in here who knows me, knows I’m a very loyal guy. I got a logo on my back, and that should tell you where I want to be.”
He’s referencing the Grizzlies tattoo on his back btw
Ohhhhh, I’m sitting here like he’s wearing a Nike shirt …
i thought he wanted to go play basketball at London
All time franchise scoring leader after two quarters
And they still couldnt fill up an arena in a city with 11 mill people
tbf he got a Nike and a Jordan brand tattoo.
This might be if the Grizzlies wants him or not
Wants to play for Nico
a glizzy logo for him and the boys
I figured he meant his own name
Thought he was referencing a target
Ja with the Target logo on his back, trade to the wolves confirmed
Ryan Rollins will do that next
Bullseye tramp stamp
I thought it was London.
That’s Deni
What happens to the back tattoo if he’s traded? Or does he just keep adding teams he gets traded too? By the end of his career he’s going to like a human nba logo.
He’ll just keep it I’d suppose. Loads of guys have soft spots for their first team that drafted em
Jason Terry got a leprechaun added to his larry o’brien trophy as form of good fortune for his stint for the celtics and its still there lol
Ahhh
I assumed he was wearing a magic city shirt
Also has Kobe’s logo tattooed there
You can interpret that however you want
I wonder if he will alter it after he gets traded
Something like “Glizzies” could work, especially if he ends up in NY
Ohhhhhh, I thought it was his lawyer’s logo
Lower back.
Ja is a lot of things, has said a lot of things, but one thing he has NEVER said is that he wants out. Never requested a trade. Has never said anything negative about Memphis. He very clearly loves Memphis. The org in its entirety? Idk. But Memphis? Yes, obviously.
He also loves Miami tho?
Shit if I had 100M+ and got June - Oct off every year I’d love it too
That’s gotta be the worst time of the year to be in Miami.
Not when you’re rich 😂
Even when you’re rich. You think that sun is cooler for someone like him? He’s not that rich. It’s not like we can’t afford air conditioning as well. And if just being indoors is someone being rich then I guess I’m rich too.
Yeah but he can also afford air conditioning on a boat, uncrowded beach with a fan and cool drinks, somebody else to do all of the chores around the house, grocery shop and cook for him and have all of that within a couple feet of the house.
Summer in Florida doesn’t suck when I’m chilling on the beach under an umbrella with a nice cool breeze blowing by while reading a good book on a secluded beach.
Summer in Florida sucks when I have to park 3 miles away from the entrance to Publix and have to cross the parking lot that might as well be fucking Arrakis.
I’m just gonna say it. You’re not thinking rich. Its the luxury and immediate access. There is no problem because it can be solved on a whim. A luxury you don’t have.
Guy plays ball as his job for 8 months and has 4 months of free time. Free time to do whatever he wants with buckets of cash. The bills are paid. Food isn’t a worry. Home is cleaned for you. Laundry is done. Lawn mowed. Plumbing fixed. Its a different life.
So its a little hot? Cold drink, ice cream on a dime, get a private pool, cruise on a boat. Acting like y’all on the same level. Yeah, maybe biologically as a human.
Lol he’s rich enough to not be there when it’s boiling hot
We are talking about being in Miami in the summer. Not elsewhere.
As am I, I said he’s rich enough to not be there when it’s boiling hot. He can fly in for a party and dip when it’s not right. Making Miami summers still pretty fun
The comment said June to October. If you’re going to change the whole point then yeah you get to be right.
That’s why you go to your crib in Cali in the off season
the summer? is it just because it’s hot or what? that seems like it’d be a fun time to party?
Sweltering heat + humidity.
It’s hot and Miami is a big party city.
You know it’s hot in Memphis without the ocean, right? lol
Exactly. You can fuck off to literally anywhere and come back to work during the better times.
damn so out of anywhere in the world if you had more money than you could spend, you’d go to florida in the summer?
this is like when dwight isn’t even the manager in his own fantasy in the office lol
He plays for the Grizz, it’s more like April/May until October ;)
everybody with millions in disposable income likes miami
So does half the nba lol
Publically expressed a desire to be traded there?
There’s a big difference between trade me to Miami and if you are going to trade me I want to go to miami
Facts but he never even said that. Rachel Nichols did 😂 when has she had Ja information?
He doesn’t act like he wants to go anywhere, but he doesn’t act like he wants to be a professional where he’s at.
He’s a moron. Oxymoron.
I’ve heard from a lot of Memphis guys is people outside Memphis don’t understand there’s a genuine connection between Ja and the city that goes beyond normal bonds. Maybe this is his come to Jesus moment and yall live happily ever after.
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Honest to god I hope he means it, and I hope you do. Just get him back to 85% of what he was and get him on the court 60 times a season, and everybody – including neutrals who just want to watch fun hoops – benefits.
Bro is not cooked, yall talking about him like a make a wish kid lol. Dude has had some injuries and some overblown off the court stuff. He’s still that dude.
“Overblown” he’s a grown man who hops on live streams playing with guys. He’s stupid. Didn’t he also get into a fight with a high school kid or some shit? Dude ain’t got it mentally
Playing with guys is a crazy typo
Nah he’s cooked
Trade Reaves for him then, steal of a deal because he’s still that dude.
Hell no, he’s seeing the price of not developing his skills in any meaningful way past his slashing style that relied solely on athletic dominance. Injuries take that away and he’s just a shitty guard that can’t shoot or defend, with the bonus of the shittiest attitude and worst family in the league.
Kleiman put the goddamn phone down, idc what anyone says.
Grizzlies Fans rn
This is perfect
Yeah tell ZK to stay off the phone
100%.
I at least wanna see him with Edey before we make any drastic decisions.
Theoretically, they are a perfect fit and Edey in his limited games has really settled into the NBA playstyle this season.
I think itd be premature to trade a, for all his faults, beloved Grizzly without at least trying it out the inital idea for a little
All is forgiven
Edey’s ankle injuries might be career threatening, as Nate Duncan astutely pointed out.
yea i think theoretically the trio of JJJ, Ja, and Edey really complement each other perfectly. I think with those three all playing healthy and a different head coach and this team could be a top 3 in the West.
I think his frontal cortex fully developed last night and we will finally reap the rewards. He is 26 after all so not a far fetched theory
I love the optimism
Smash cut to Ja live streaming himself reenacting this scene with a 15 year old outside the arena.
I think he is likely trapped by his chosen friends and the lifestyle he feels he owes them, cant really make the journey to adulthood because he has people manipulating him for his money. Sadly that includes his parents that use him and dont support him emotionally on his challenging journey, but instead distract and confuse him.
He’s surrounded himself with a posse of grifter idiots, including his mom/dad/sister. There’s no one there who’s gonna be real with him, they’re all out to bleed him dry and keep the party going. He’s gonna be left with nothing before it’s all over.
These are some oddly personal comments about a guy you don’t know.
Warriors fans really get in their feelings about Ja.
It’s easy to say this from a distance. Cutting off toxic family members, especially your parents and siblings, is so incredibly difficult. Especially when they work to isolate you in their bubble.
That’s not how it works
Ask auto insurers
He’s basically saying the Grizzlies are home and that resonates with fans who have been through the ups and downs with him
Idk I do want to see him and Edey playing together. Will be super fun (in my imagination).
It was fun last season and Edey is so much better now. Having them both healthy changes literally everything
A lot of people in these comments just completely unfamiliar with the concept of lying.
“If you guys will have me back, I plan on re-signing here.” - Kyrie Irving, Boston Celtic
That was just evil. Microphone and everything
What makes you think that he’s lying?
Tbf it looks good if Ja publicly frames himself as loyal instead of locker-room cancer
Is he a locker room cancer, no one even said anything about the locker room until they started losing
Right, you see him on the sidelines he’s super engaged and excited, he talks to Iisalo about plays, honestly seems like they made peace almost immediately, because next game back they looked on the same page. He’s always out there talking to the young guys and giving them advice, and videos from warm-ups/practices/team stuff in general, he’s usually out there joking around. When he’s in a foul mood there’s usually a reason, and he hates losing, so yeah, he’ll look pissed.
He gets a hard reputation in the media/general nba world that he straight out didn’t earn - he’s done some stupid things, but not as stupid as they let you think.
The gun thing? Stupid but he didn’t break the law. Law enforcement investigated in Denver. Nothing. Second time may not have been a real gun, but Adam Silver said it didn’t matter because of appearances. He claimed it was a lighter, has a video of him with a lighter just like it.
Kid he punched? Yeah court found he was acting in self defense and didn’t do anything wrong. Kid tried to take him to civil court and it was dismissed, judge said the kid wasn’t credible and some other stuff I don’t remember. Plus the “kid” was a 17 year old who plays college ball now, big athletic guy, but if you don’t know that it comes across way worse.
There’s a lot more, but it’s just a lot more of the same.
no player has ever lied before you’re right
Well, I didn’t say that at all. Of course players lie. I just wanted to know why OP thinks that Ja is lying in this particular instance.
Because I don’t like ja so clearly he must be lying is the answer
Come the fuck on.
I’m genuinely asking. Why is that such a crazy question?
Cause he hasn’t done anything that shows he cares about the team
Apparently lol
I never lie.
Ok, that’s a lie.
He was referring to the Grizzlies logo tattooed on his back.
That’s even worse than getting your partner’s name tattooed on you.
In some respects it may be the same. Crazy emotional highs with the same tenuous long term commitment level
It reminds me of the final scene of Peep Show. Appropriate for the London game.
Ja (thoughts): Aw, we really do love each other really
Memphis FO (thoughts): I simply must get rid of him
Personally I hope different
Goat show
Hahah great reference
He finally saw the writing on the walls. Trae Young, another undersized franchise point guard that specializes in offense and is a negative on the defensive end got traded to another team for a bag of peanuts. That will negatively affect how much he’s going to get on his next deal.
Of course his own actions affect him more and he’s trying to repent, but it’s probably too late.
Ja never even said he wanted to be traded. Those usually come out really official. Like what we saw with kuminga, Trae.
Yeah he just did literally everything else on earth short of literally shooting someone to try and get his team to get rid of him though lol. Honestly its not about if Ja is loyal its about if the team can actually put up with his shit or not and I honestly don’t see how/why if they get an acceptable offer. Maybe he finally realized that
This is a disengious apple to apple comparison. Trae young was easier to trade because the hawks believe Johnson is a star. The grizzlies don’t have that. Second Trae young got less for a trade because he likely wanted to go to a team that would extend him. That’s not the case for ja his contract is set for at least another year plus
Yup, not sure how everyone doesn’t see this an attempt to still try and keep/get his bag
What? He’s bag isn’t in jeopardy? 😂 he’s getting millions through 2028 regardless.
When is his deal up?
Grizzlies fans are that battered girlfriend who knows they should get out of a bad relationship, but everytime he says something sweet they give him another chance thinking he’s changed. Everyone watching from the outside can tell it’s a toxic relationship except for them, and you just hope for their sake one day that they get out of it.
Shut up once Edey is healthy (and if Ja stays healthy) Memphis is running the league
Edey’s ankle injuries are very serious. It might be unreasonable to expect him to be healthy.
They don’t have to worry about the West, right? Mfers really out here thinking Ja and Edey are gonna dominate the league, rofl. It’d be even funnier if it wasn’t so fucking pitiful.
Bout time for you to hop on a new bandwagon isn’t it?
Been a Warriors ticket holder since Joe Barry Carroll was drafted, little guy.
Lol that’s clearly a name you just made up
In that case, you’re too old to be talking shit about a fairly innocuous quote. Did you want him to grovel to Adam Silver to move the Grizz to the East?
Hopium lol
Lol
I think you spend too much time watching the Lifetime Network
and he gets traded to raptors not….
Ja Morant on if he wants to be a Grizzlie, “I don’t compare myself with anybody.” Then he rolled up his shirt and showed a tattoo of the Grizzlies logo. “I’ll let you interpret that however you want,” Morant said.
I’m irrationally bothered by how you chose to spell Grizzly.
Grisly error
Lmao looking like the person who spells their kid’s name Ashleeigh or something. Which do we like better— Memphis Grislees, grizlays, grizleighs?
Rooting for this dude
That’s my point guard
“I’ll let you interpret that however you want”
Guys he’s good, he’s got the tattoo
Shhh Grizz fans have been going thru it just let them have this one lol
is the logo smith and wessen
Ignore my behaviours. I’m loyal cause I got a tattoo.
Exactly, hahaha
He wants to stay but they want him Audi 5k b.
Lmao
It’s good to hear Ja say this because quite literally no team was going to offer the grizzlies the insane things they wanted for him
I think the insane thing they want is “any positive asset at all”
Idk if they’re not getting a good haul for him it’s probably a better chance they work stuff out with him than they do anything replacing him with scraps. Unless he’s seriously so disruptive that they really have to.
I might feel differently about holding onto him and hoping he figured it out if he wasn’t making such a big contract. An inconsistent malcontent who never plays can’t take 25% of the cap, we’d be better off with 3 solid role players.
Ja: I got a Memphis Grizzlies tattoo on my back. Reporter: Your stupid decisions are well documented.
He wearing a Shotgun Willie’s sweatshirt or what?
Do that more like before
TALK THAT SHI JA, let mfs know who u are
It’s not you, Ja. It’s the consumer.
Then he rolled up a shirt to show a tattoo of the Arby’s logo on his back.
“I’ll let you interpret that however you want,” Morant said.
Stir
Trying to increase his trade value. Too late buddy.
Man, let Memphis have its franchise player please
One good game and everyone switches up.
It seems like the day Steven Adams stepped in from of Ja just because SA didn’t want Morant to get injured in a fight was the beginning of the end of his career.
He’s been trying to prove that he’s the hardest dude ever since.
Ja just going through one of his manopause phases!
It’s cause of dudes like Tim MacMahon spreading his bullshit from a source that Ja wanted out. Cant believe how much his shit catches on throughout the league. Cant believe he still has a platform
Just curious but do actual Grizzlies fans want to see this guy go?
He doesnt want to live in mke
i want to be here as the star, coach and gm of the team. Also all the other players too im them too
Loyal to the last bullet 🔫
Actions speak louder than words
TIL Ja has a Griz tramp stamp
He gone.
Then act like it.
Bane and Brooks wanted to stay too… Kleiman don’t care. Ja getting shipped out for peanuts
Dumb ass dude has a Grizzlies tattoo…..
Pro sports teams are like boyfriend..-..girlfriend relationships
Can be traded at any time…no loyalty
Idiot
Didn’t he recently say he doesn’t want to be on the Grizzlies any more?
Dude is a clown
Lil bro ass
Jaren Jackson Jr you are a Toronto Raptor!
Why do Grizzlies fans want anything to do with this dude lol
I don’t know if I believe bro but at the same time. Trade offers are so bad I would just keep him
Professional gaslighter lmao
Michael Jackson soldier put gun down dot gif
Loo did he just say he wanted MIA, and they said they wouldn’t be interested…
Gotta check your sources on the internet my guy. Ja has never said he wanted to be traded nor said anything about Miami
There was a report that said his preferred destination was MIA, im not sure how to post links but if you Google it it comes up… I was about to say I got duped because Rachel Nichols reported it lol but there are a couple different sources
Never know what to believe anymore
Yes Rachel did say that. But Rachel has never had Ja insider information or Memphis insider information. I think she was just grasping like most reporters. The official unofficial trade requests or demands usually hit Shams. Like Trae and Kumingas
I’m sure in a certain sense he’s telling the truth, he wants to play for the Grizzlies. However, he does not want to play for this team nor does he want to play for this organization. Whether he is self aware to know the difference or even understand how checked out he’s been, I don’t know. I’m sure if there were sweeping changes to the front office/coaching/ownership etc. he’d be happy to continue playing for them…
But clearly Ja is not apart of their long term plans.
he is too loyal, is his problem, he cant see when others are hurting him for their own ego.
problem is he gave his real allegiance to some idiot gold diggers clinging to him like leaches. his ‘crew’ drag him down and he doesn’t actually choose the team and other players and basketball, he chooses his abusive clown show of tough guy friends over his teammates.
the laser that may or may not have been attached to a gun, the strip clubs, the lifestyle he chose is not professional athlete dedicated to the sport and to winning, its the opposite.
he made his choice, is Ja mature enough to regret and change a decision that would require standing up to the dumbfucks dragging him down? that includes his father. I dont think he is mature and strong enough and I am sad for him that he got fucked by his family encouraging unprofessional bullshit as his aura.
Preach. Completely accurate read.
“He’s fine”
What logo exactly? Heckler & Koch?
Holy cornball
Man shut up lol
Nobody wanted him
Lmao Multiple teams expressed interest. If the grizz would trade him for scraps he would’ve been gone
Everyone knows him knows he’s a fake-ass poser, shit. Dude is loyal to being a trick and that’s about it.
Why are you so salty in these comments lmao
Who hurt you?
Temerius: i gotta be loyle to my capo.
I really don’t like his character, but good dam Memphis don’t trade him, it’s so refreshing to see a guy actually try to fight on his place on a small market.