Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant has been suspended from all activity with his team for again appearing in a video on social media holding a gun.
Morant is in an Instagram Live in the passenger seat of a vehicle with some friends when, at one point in the recording, the driver makes the symbol of a gun. Then, for a brief fraction of a second, the basketball player is observed holding a handgun when the driver, holding the mobile, hurriedly removes it aware of the problems it could cause the athlete.
For now, the problems begin with Morant removed from the franchise. "We know that a video has appeared on social networks in which Ja Morant is implicated," says the press release that the Grizzlies have published this Sunday. "He is suspended from all team activity pending the league's investigation. We will not comment further," the brief statement concludes.
And the problems could be greater since it is the second time that Morant is splashed by such a scandal. Just two months ago, the Grizzlies point guard appeared in another recording on social networks wielding a gun at a Denver club partying with friends and "with symptoms of alcohol poisoning," according to the NBA investigation.
For this reason, the North American basketball league suspended the player with 8 games without pay for harmful conduct with the competition after a meeting between commissioner Adam Silver and Morant himself.
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