Ja Morant, champion of Memphis Grizzliesa basketball team that plays in the US NBA, risks a heavy disqualification: after showing a visibly altered gun in a video, he would have transported the weapon by plane, violating the rules imposed by the championship.
Ja Morant is a great champion, but he’s no saint: his past, as emerges from an investigation of Washington Postquite stormy. His last stunt happened a few days ago. Fresh from the defeat against Denver, at 3 am in a nightclub, he did a live Instagram in which, drunk or at least very happy, he showed a gun.
Ready triggered a two-game ban decided by the Memphis Grizzlies, to which Morant reacted in his own way: making fun of the decision, only to then release a video in which he apologized and assumed responsibility for his actions. Now, however, the situation seems to be getting worse for the Memphis Grizzlies star.
Stop for 50 games?
Glandale Police have indeed located the bar where the video was shot and is now investigating whether Morant violated laws relating to carrying a gun and the ability to transport a gun interstate in the United States.
The NBA is also investigating Morant to clarify the events that occurred in Colorado and to evaluate any violations of the code of ethics applied by the league regarding the possession and use of firearms by players when they are engaged in sports-related activities.
The question to answer is: where did that gun come from? If Morant took it with him in the suitcase on the team’s plane with which he arrived in Denver, he would have violated the rules of the agreement signed by the players’ association and the NBA, risking a stoppage of dozens of games. As happened in the 2009-10 season to another NBA champion, Gilbert Arenas, who had to miss 50 games after empty weapons were found in his locker.
