Ja appears to have clarified the tweet, likely after a quick call from PR. Clearly someone close to him with an unfortunate nickname passed.
This is to clarify the prior tweet that is now highly upvoted with reactionary takes on this sub. If mods leave that one up, I'm not sure why they'd take this one down.
by wiseraccoon
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I feel like it was pretty easy to intuit through context that it was about the death of a person (or pet), but he also basically teed up the jokes by not providing any.
that other post was such bullshit.
thanks for adding the context OP.
edit: lol just keep telling on yourselves in my replies y’all
A lot of ignorancy in the previous post…
Edit: the downvotes showing r/nba standing by it lmao
Lmfao why would he not just make that clear initially
pretty obvious he meant no harm lmao
Tbh I think people need to stop getting up in arms about what athletes/celebs post on their social media anyway
I always found it weird.
Why is r/nba larping as Adam Silver’s henchmen now who gives this much of a shit about “muh optics”
r nba bout to be so disappointed
I knew this was the most likely scenario and I still think he has to have better awareness. It’s a shitty situation for him, but he put himself in the situation to not get the benefit of the doubt.
Some people actually got triggered by the comment “trigger”
go touch grass
Lmao people are not giving someone with ja’s history the benefit of doubt when he posts anything that could be remotely related to guns or firearms. He made his bed last year he can sleep in it.
Edit: just because someone is good at basketball doesn’t mean they’re immune from the consequences of their actions. Idgaf I taught it was funny but he has to be one of the slowest mf’s alive if he thinks tweeting “trigger❤️” with no other context would go over well given his history.
I thought he had a baby and named it Trigger
I think the reactionary comments are well deserved w dudes history…just turns out this one was legit. RIP to his friend
Talk about someone who never disappoints. We love you Ja, and sorry for your loss.
I saw that on my twitter and assumed his dog died or something
All this time Ja was just trying to give him a shoutout. He’s a real one for sure.
This place is really, and I mean REALLY white
Reading the comments over there… I hope they do take it down.
Or, leave it up so people can look at all the idiotic comments, with all of the subtle racist jabs.
Lmao y’all doing too much
The clarification is secondary. Ja Morant is obviously really unintelligent. Who would want to build a franchise around somebody so stupid
I mean, I don’t have a problem with what Ja is doing. I don’t really care. My problem has always been that Ja is apparently first ballot HOF at shooting himself in his own foot.
Kinda dumb he didn’t have hindsight to realize it would cause controversy. Dude is probably the dumbest superstar we’ve had in a while
Ja having a loved one nicknamed trigger is so on brand that this is just hilarious. Rip but my god man you couldn’t write this in a comedy sketch 😂😂😂
The people complaining about optics are weird. It’s like they want NBA players to be emotionless robots putting out PR speak.
Ja literally did nothing wrong and they’re talking about he should’ve said other stuff to prevent controversy.
Idc what he was talking about. Dude has the self awareness of a brick
Every player in the league still does finger guns fifty times a game. This shit is so lame.
If its any other player, no one would care, but its Ja who has a history of this shit. Quit pretending otherwise. Ja isn’t a victim.