The Police visited the home of the NBA star to verify his condition. The basketball player had published a series of farewell messages to his family on his social networks.
The Tennessee State Police reported Thursday that I Morantbase of the Memphis GrizzliesHe was in good health. The communication occurred after a visit that security personnel made to the basketball player’s residence hours after the player, who is suspended from all his team’s activities, shared a series of messages that raised concern.
On Wednesday morning, Morant, 23, had posted on his Twitter account Instagram some stories with images and texts addressed to her parents and her daughter Kaari (“I love you mom”, “I love you dad” and “You are the biggest baby and I love you”) and a last message that simply said “Bye bye”.
Although he later deleted the stories, the time they remained online was enough to raise alarms about the player’s condition and his mental health.
This was what prompted the Tennessee police authorities to visit the base’s home to check how he was doing. John Morris, spokesman for the Shelby County Police Department (to which Memphis belongs), reported that Morant was fine. “He told us that he would take a break, away from social networks”he added in statements collected by the Associated Press agency.
The basketball player has been suspended from all Grizzlies activities since May 14, after the broadcast of an Instagram Live video in which he appeared displaying a firearm while traveling in a vehicle with other people. For this fact, the NBA is conducting an investigation from which the final punishment will emerge.
This was not the first time that the player, twice chosen to participate in the Game of the Stars, was involved in a situation of this type. In March, he was suspended for eight games and received a $669,000 pay deduction for bringing in a gun and posting a video displaying it at a Colorado nightclub after a Grizzlies-Denver Nuggets game.
After that incident, Morant met with Adam Silver, NBA commissioner, who considered that the player’s conduct had been “irresponsible, reckless and potentially very dangerous” and considered that it could have “serious consequences” due to the large number of young people who followed and admired him.
In that occasion, the point guard apologized, attributed his behavior to stress and said that he was receiving professional advice to manage it. “I am completely sorry for this. So my job now is to be more responsible, smarter and not cause any of that anymore,” she promised.
Morant, who has signed a contract with the Grizzlies for five years and 194 million dollars which will take effect next season, had already been involved in other incidents.
In February it was learned that those close to the player were being investigated after being accused by members of the coaching staff of Indiana Pacers of having pointed a gun at them after a game played on January 29 in Memphis.
In addition, the point guard was accused last year of threatening a member of the security force of a Memphis shopping center during an altercation and of having beaten and intimidated a 17-year-old boy with a gun after a fight during a football game. basketball at the player’s house.
2023-05-26 02:09:43
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