Ja Morant has finally released a statement after being suspended from the Memphis Grizzlies for flashing a gun on Instagram for the second time.
According to ESPN, the NBA all star released a statement saying, “I know I’ve disappointed a lot of people who have supported me. This is a journey and I recognize there is more work to do. My words may not mean much right now, but I take full accountability for my actions. I’m committed to continuing to work on myself.” The statement read.
Ja Morant statement: “I know I’ve disappointed a lot of people who have supported me. This is a journey and I recognize there is more work to do. My words may not mean much right now, but I take full accountability for my actions. I’m committed to continuing to work on myself.”
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 17, 2023
As we previously reported, Morant just returned back to the league after earlier this year he was seen holding a gun in a Colorado strip club and apologized for the first incident, claiming the person the world saw in the video was not the real him.
“It’s not who I am,” Morant said. “I don’t condone it or any type of violence, but I take full responsibility for my actions. I made a bad mistake. I can see the image that I painted over myself with my recent mistakes. But in the future, I’m going to show everybody who Ja really is, what I’m about and change this narrative that everybody got.”
Shortly after the incident, Morant entered a counseling program in Florida where he said he worked on techniques to better handle stress, including Reiki and anxiety breathing, reflecting on the position he put himself in.
“Honestly, I feel like we put ourselves in that situation with our past mistakes, and now it’s only right that we focus in and lock in on being smarter and more responsible, holding each other accountable for everything,” Morant said of his inner circle.
“I feel like in the past we didn’t know what was at stake. And now finally me having that time to realize everything, have that time alone, I realize that now.
“I realize what I have to lose, and for us as a group, what we have to lose. It’s pretty much just that being more responsible, more smarter and staying away from all the bad decisions.”
TWITTER REACTS TO MORANT’S STATEMENT
By the way, this statement Ja made….. it’s Chat GPT…… #PatheticApology #JaMorant #idiot #generatedbyAI https://t.co/ZBklA74Xum
— Kento Ito (@alchemistmuffin) May 17, 2023
Ja Morant just hit the forward button from the last apology statement 🙄
— Chaos Gremlin (@PynkieBrewster) May 17, 2023
Sorry or sorry you got caught? It’s your own fault. Every person that saw that video saw you look at the phone, see your buddy was on IG live, & then you flash the gun. C’mon @JaMorant. Also making this statement during the 4th of the WCF? Suspicious? Yeah. See you in 10/2025.
— David S. Pumpkins (@HalloRiched) May 17, 2023