Ja Morant Hits Apparent Gun Celebration In Win Over Pelicans

Ja Morant‘s barely been again on the NBA hardwood for per week, however he is already discovered himself mired in a little bit of controversy once more — this time after he hit a celebration that appeared to characteristic imaginary weapons.

The Grizzlies level guard pulled out the celly Tuesday night time after he helped give Memphis an insurmountable lead over the Pelicans in time beyond regulation of their recreation in New Orleans.

The 24-year-old — who just came back from a 25-game ban for a string of incidents involving gun-related social media videos final week — appeared to show his arms into the form of pistols after throwing down a thunderous alley-oop dunk, earlier than he appeared to spray the highway crowd with pretend bullets.

The gestures solely lasted a couple of seconds, earlier than Morant returned to protection to complete off the sport — however basketball followers had been nonetheless important of the strikes nonetheless.

A number of roasted him as “tone deaf” — significantly after he had simply returned from his suspension on Dec. 19.

In fact, it is completely doable Morant was not mimicking firing weapons and was as a substitute simply merely hitting a dance — however the hooper has but to publicly tackle all of it.