Ja Morant


Attack Dog said:
I really hope you are just playing devils advocate on this one. Endangering his brand, pockets, and possibly life are all destructive behaviors.
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My position is that we can acknowledge that Ja needs to move differently while also acknowledging the hypocrisy and double standard over the reaction to Ja being seen with a gun in comparison to others who also publicly display their firearms.
 
NCCU_Christopher said:
You are correct in that this was negotiated in the agreement between the player's association and the nba. Ja has the legal right to do what he has done, but it goes against the stuff listed in the agreement between the player's association and the nba. The thing about all this is Ja is from a middle class family and he is acting like this for whatever reason while posting videos of it. Ja is going to loose alot of money and at some point if he keeps up with this he is going to get ban from the nba and get the rest of his guarantee contract voided.
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This...

Yet we got too many who question everything including blackness to those who do not embrace certain lifestyles. It looks like he is trying to fit into a culture that really doesn't care about him in the long run. Especially when he starts losing more and more money.
 



skyvolt2000 said:
This...

Yet we got too many who question everything including blackness to those who do not embrace certain lifestyles. It looks like he is trying to fit into a culture that really doesn't care about him in the long run. Especially when he starts losing more and more money.
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There are 40 million black people noted by the usa federal census, thus that gangsta lifestyle is only represented by a small percentage of the black population. If you take into account the people at the top, record and entertainment companies, and who consume the majority of this product are those that are not black, then it makes you wonder how authentic this lifestyle truly is when you compare the numbers of those that actually live it and then those that just try to act the lifestyle. From my view point you have Ja trying to fit into a stereotype of blackness that has been promote by those outside of the black population rather than following the path that his parents and family set him up with that is more authentic to his upbringing.
 
Olde Hornet said:
When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes!

They NBA needs to just let him go.
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Too harsh! A stiffer suspension and loss of endorsements is hopefully enough to cause him to question himself and make changes.

Unfortunately though, repercussions are just what some people are looking for to help cement their claim to a street reputation.

It seems, somehow, he thinks he has missed out on something by not being part of the self-destructive subculture he is now trying to imitate. If that is the case, he really has some maturing to do. I wish the young man well, and hope he learns to accept himself for who he really is. Nothing about those gun waving videos seem real to me.
 
Kendrick I feel your point about him owning a gun. I have a felony and was able to get my gun rights back with the stipulation that it will never be concealed. If Ja was in his home with 50 guns and took a picture and the NBA punished him....then the NBA would be dead ass wrong. Yet, he is out in the street posting on social media waving a gun like it's a right of passage.
 
LAW DAWG said:
Too harsh! A stiffer suspension and loss of endorsements is hopefully enough to cause him to question himself and make changes.

Unfortunately though, repercussions are just what some people are looking for to help cement their claim to a street reputation.

It seems, somehow, he thinks he has missed out on something by not being part of the self-destructive subculture he is now trying to imitate. If that is the case, he really has some maturing to do. I wish the young man well, and hope he learns to accept himself for who he really is. Nothing about those gun waving videos seem real to me.
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Ja is all about his friends, the loss of money is not important to him. Being cool with his friends are important. Its his choice!
 



In_The_662 said:
This is also factual. And I've seen quite a few get stomped out because they felt just because they're from Memphis, Chicago, LA, etc that we country bumpkins should just bow down and it didn't work out like that lol
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True That. When I was a student at the Corn in the 80's, some friends I known for several years, from Milwaukee decided to enroll at Alcorn. 2 brothers. The older brother was more a wanna be thug. Anyway, long story short, thug brother got with a couple of guys from Chicago, and they decided to run one of the drug stores at the Corn. Well, they bumped head with some of the Mississippi boys that were also running a drug store. City boys got so scared, they were in my dorm room hiding under my bed. I ended up leaving Alcorn around 11 o'clock that night to take them to their uncle's house about 130 miles away. LOL. They withdrew a few weeks later and only came back (with their Uncle) to get their belongings.
 
buckwheat1911 said:
He's right. I never was in the streets, so I don't understand that life. Ja hasn't either. He needs to surround himself with people that will tell him this is not the way to do things.
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Bruh these wanna be thugs don't get it. You have to be connected to move like he's trying to do. He isn't. Now these Crip dudes all on the internet saying he gotta pay a tax. In other words they are now going to extort him. All these folks trying to talk about what Wheel Chair Abbott and the Tennessee white redneck dude get ain't gonna be there when they set him up. Folks who don't have real affiliations to the streets don't understand how this mess goes. Just like your frat has conclaves, gangs do too. Only fools wanna be in the streets especially when they have no street affiliations.
 
Olde Hornet said:
The corporate sector is very different than the government sector, you know that. He is making the choice that hood friends and getting internet views are more important than his career in the NBA. I support his right to make that choice.
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But the thing is the friend that keep recording only had less than 200 people on the live, so what are they really gaining out of this. The only thing I am seeing is Ja loosing alot of money over this. I get ill with losing 100 on a bad investment or poor quality item, but Ja lost 39 million the first time and now is set to lose even more. Where is the common sense gone at for Ja and his so called friends.
 
NCCU_Christopher said:
But the thing is the friend that keep recording only had less than 200 people on the live, so what are they really gaining out of this. The only thing I am seeing is Ja loosing alot of money over this. I get ill with losing 100 on a bad investment or poor quality item, but Ja lost 39 million the first time and now is set to lose even more. Where is the common sense gone at for Ja and his so called friends.
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ja knows what he is doing, his priority is hanging out with friends and getting views, that his priority and I support him in that goal, I don't not support him as an NBA player.
 
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