Ja Morant’s Return Should Scare the NBA

Ja Morant’s Return Should Scare the NBA

Before last season the ringer put out a list of the best young cores in the NBA not only were the Memphis Grizzlies number one according to the stats and experts but they said frankly the top of this leaderboard wasn’t even close but a year later they’re one of the worst

Teams in basketball John Morant went from the best young player outside of Luca donic to not even on the list as a potential face of the league but the NBA should be very scared when he comes back the top 10 spot are teams who make the playoffs or the play in somebody is

Going to get knocked off this list and go into complete panic mode jaw could be one of the best comeback stories of all time a young star ruins his career then takes it all back by reminding the world who he is if he can pull it off forget

The gun problems there is something else Memphis is worried about with J dude was the next face of the NBA because of what happened in year three the Grizzlies drafted jaw in 2019 number two behind Zion Williamson who is supposed to be the real Superstar but jaw won Rookie of

The Year and kept getting better year three is one of the biggest superstar leaps in league history goes from 19 to 27 points per game dunked on the best teams in the NBA to win most improved which that normally apply to Superstars but this was unheard of Steve Kerr even

Said the way memph was building reminded him of the Young Warriors they drafted future star Desmond Bane at 30 starter Brandon Clark at 21 like the dubs build through the draft so in 2022 the Grizz had an average age of just 24 years old but outscored teams by at least five

Points per game the only other team to do that this Century the 2011 OKC Thunder with KD Russ and James Harden that is why Jos said he’s fine in the West but 5 months after that comment everything fell apart jaw flashed a gun on IG live in a Denver strip club that

Same night Brandon Clark tore his Achilles against the nuggets the NBA suspended jaw cuz we could see this coming two police reports were filed months before saying jaw and his crew intimidated and beat up people one week after a shouting match with Shannon sharp jaw and Chris dwarte got heated

During a game but jaw’s cre aggressively confronted Pacers players near the team bus and someone in a slow moving SUV with jaw in it trained a red laser on them now we don’t know if that was jaw or if the laser was attached to a gun

But the NBA finally stepped in why was jaw trying to ruin a dream NBA career some people say he was emulating rappers that he loves to listen to jaw is famously obsessed with NBA young boy who glorifies a gangster life or maybe since becoming the man in Memphis he’s got a

New Circle Memphis is known to be a dangerous city and home to a lot of famous rappers but jaah doesn’t come from that life he is from a middleclass neighborhood with two loving parents young boy’s dad went to prison for 55 years and he was arrested for robbery in

The ninth grade but he makes that life sound fun and exciting so it was no surprise 2 months later jaw flashed a another gun with NBA young boy in the background this time he was suspended 25 games but also missed a $40 million payday in total jaw lost an estimated 60

Million bucks due to his gun incidents alone but the other problem Memphis is worried about could be just as bad the Grizz went 6 and 19 during Jaws suspension he blamed himself for their record and said he learned a lot The Hope was to push for the play and erased

The negativity on the court in his first game back the Grizz were down 19 at half to Zion and the pels but jaw exploded for 27 points the game was tied with 9 seconds left jaw had the ball with the pel’s best defender guarding but hit the

Game winner you couldn’t script a better comeback or maybe you can the Grizz ripped off four wins in a row and jaw was back to dunking on the League’s best defenders through nine games with jaw they just went five and four but it proved he was still Magic on the

Basketball court then it was announced jaw had hurt his shoulder and would miss the rest of the season just like that it killed any chance for him to resurrect his legacy this year and it didn’t even happen during a game now I want to come back to how jaw hurt himself because

That is key to the future but there is a silver lining the Grizzlies have been so injured they have used a record 29 different players this year and two of them had become breakout young Stars GG Jackson was a second round pick but just became the youngest player to hit seven

Threes in a game in six starts he’s averaged almost a double double with 25 points and almost 5490 as a 19-year-old that is unreal but Vince Williams Jr was picked even lower than Gigi and will be key to their future with jaw Desmond Bane and Triple

J as their core the Grizz were missing a highlevel wing Defender who could hit threes Dylan Brooks was supposed to be that guy but Vince is the new replacement so next year will be terrible for one current postseason franchise I mean if you look at the West

Right now the Grizzlies would push the Warriors out of the postseason it’s also bad for Houston who are on the verge of breaking through but you have to think of all these teams the Warriors are in the most danger of missing the Playoffs next year which is crazy with Steph

Curry but someone’s going to get knocked out if the Grizz return to the playoffs which they will also the Spurs want to be competitive if they make it that’ll be two current teams that Miss next year these are all good teams now the dubs know this and major changes need to

Happen same with the Lakers but we know they want a big trade this off season they held off on getting dejonte Murray to have three picks to deal and might get Trey young let me know which team you think Memphis is going to knock out but I think health is the main concern

For everyone if your star gets injured you are screwed including Memphis see Jah hurt his shoulder warming up for practice he was just moving it around in a circle and it popped out requiring surgery that’s scary when you consider what happened to him in the past jaw has

Never played more than 67 games when he won Rookie of the Year that means every other season he wouldn’t have been eligible for awards with the new 65 game rule no MVP no all-nba now to be fair 2021 was a shortened season but he was taken off in a wheelchair after tweaking

His ankle against the Nets random injury whatever but the next year missed 22 games hurting his knee John Collins barely touched him but it was a problem all year so in the playoffs Jordan P seemed to pull on his knee and John missed the final three games of the

Series in 2023 he missed 12 games with various injuries including this one where cat set a hard screen and bumped his thigh then came down hard in the playoffs had to miss game two against La the gun problems won’t take jaw down it’s more likely his body dude plays

With Derek Rose intensity and the injuries keep piling up next year the NBA should be scared about his return but we’ll see how long jaw’s comeback actually lasts but one thing about jaah he ain’t soft the NBA just tweaked his new rules and it’s really affecting guys

Like James Harden and Trey young who hunt for fouls ja would have been fine but why did the NBA lie to us when they obviously made these changes

Ja Morant will be back before we know it and the NBA should be terrified. The Grizzlies were the 2-seed in the West before Ja’s career took a turn for the worst and when he comes back the team will be even stronger. This is a look at which franchise is most at risk when Memphis is back at full strength.