[Smith] “Ja Morant had a great chance at being All-NBA this year, which would have bumped his salary on his extension by nearly $40 million. His absence last season while suspended and after, likely cost him plenty of votes. Months later, he’s doing the same stuff. I just don’t get it.”
Ja Morant had a great chance at being All-NBA this year, which would have bumped his salary on his extension by nearly $40 million. His absence last season while suspended and after, likely cost him plenty of votes.
Months later, he's doing the same stuff. I just don't get it.
— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) May 14, 2023
by BigButter7
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I don’t think he cares, clearly, since he did it again.
Up with Miles Bridges and Dennis Schroeder in the bag fumbler HOF
Leave Ja alone, he just needed a prop for his dance
At what point does Memphis fee pressured to trade him and if that actually does happen how much do we think they’d get for him?
Ja is obviously trying to be a free agent. Get his contact voided so he can go play in China. /s
“I just don’t get it.” – tweet take
Ja just doesn’t care about the hundreds of millions he’s leaving on the table, including endorsements, and instead wants to brandish some cred as a badass. When you’re making “f you” levels of bank, he probably doesn’t care about the potential to earn “F YOU” levels of bank nor his reputation post-NBA.
$40 million ❌
Street cred on IG live with 100 viewers ✅✅✅✅
He should not be expected to make rational decisions, because he is an alcoholic surrounded by enablers.
It remains his responsibility. But his behaviour shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
I get it. He’s an idiot.
What is there to not get? The kid is an idiot, that’s the extent of it.
Maybe he’s just a dumbass.
I mean, sure maybe he’s got some mental health issues or some addiction issues or whatever issues could be plaguing him…
But just going from experience in life, I know a whole bunch more dumbasses than I do people with issues that lead to them acting like dumbasses.
Maybe he’s just a dumbass.
If you think you felt invincible at 23, imagine giving yourself millions of fans and dollars.
You can’t apply Kieth Smith’s headspace to Ja Morant
There’s not much to get. He’s a huge dumbass. He’s gonna continue to do dumb shit.
Can his 100 ig live viewers get a vote though?
Any chance he gets suspended again? Or is the combination of it being the off season for him and not his story mean the NBA won’t care enough
$40 million? Small price compared to the prestige of flashing a gun on video for a couple seconds to look cool.
no worries he will earn that 40 mil in the streets with his gun
[ja in 2011](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtrEVOJSt4)
Giving 23 year olds fuck-you-money isn’t a recipe for good behavior nor long basketball careers. If Ja doesn’t give a shit what exactly is the league going to do?
He is a moron. What is there to get?
He’s a dumbass, pretty simple lol
Why doesn’t he just not show guns on IG Live? Is he stupid?
From a marketing perspective he should really just lean in at this point and be like listen I’m working hard on the court and enjoying my time off of it and stop pretending to care
It’s an embarrassment that he tried to use mental illness as an excuse. He’s just a bitch. Plain and simple. He’d rather pretend and play cops and robbers than getting a jumper and being an accomplished athlete. But nah, pretending to be a criminal is sooo much more fun. Nothing cooler than blasting music in the car while you swing a piece around. And we all know that definitely is loaded and most certainly doesn’t have the safety on😂
The $40 million doesn’t mean enough to him. He’s living more than comfortably. He’d rather live the way he wants to with this money than play by someone else’s rules for more money.
He already has the life changing money so he doesn’t care.
And the “same stuff” is as simple as “don’t flash guns on Instagram live”
He’s dumb as fuck and arrogant
They won’t do it, but they should suspend him for the season to really send a message. Ja won’t learn without real consequences.
I kinda had no room to talk after the first incident cause me and my buddies did something incredibly stupid with a gun when we were drunk in our early 20s that could have gotten us in trouble or worse somebody innocent could’ve gotten hurt. But all of us agreed that was incredibly stupid and never did anything like that again. But man, you can’t get a slap on the wrist and do it again. You gotta take that shit seriously.
Fake friends! He needs some people around him with some sense
When you’re trying to be Papa Doc but your real name is Clarence.
Ja is the living embodiment of the bike fall meme
He will never win a championship, but he will keep his team out of the lottery. And he will never stop being stupid
Now if only SAS and the other talking heads would spend as much type eviscerating Ja and him glorifying this shit culture as much as they spend on talking about it Lebron has arrived yet
I think he might just be an idiot
He’s a dumb piece of shit that’s why.
He doesn’t get it either
This guys a gangster? His real names Temetrius
This dude is a father. Imagine how his daughters going to be treated growing up
What’s there to get? He’s immature, and still has the mentality of a teenager. You can’t tell him that though, because that’s “disrespectful” to him. He’ll round up his posse and pistol whip you for talking about him like that. He’s gotta show his low life loser wannabe thug friends that’s he about that thug life.
He is an idiot, i dont think here is more to it.
I think he is *genuinely* not very smart. Like, I truly don’t mean that in a “HAR HAR GUY DUMB” joking way.
This dude is actually dumb as shit.
Hall of fame bag fumbler
What’s funny is we’re gonna get another apology from him
Imagine his arsenal if he had that extra 40 million to work with. We could be seeing dual wield RPGs in his instagram stories
He’s still going to make almost 200 million dollars on his extension which is generations of money and all the guns he wants to take pictures with. I get that 40 million is a lot of money, but 200 million dollars is really fucking hard to blow. Like without interest you could spend 1000 dollars a day for 540ish years
Maybe he’s just not intelligent. Maybe he’s physically gifted and well trained but very very dumb.
Ja Moron