NBA Fines Ja Morant $ 75.000 for gestures of pistol for fingers
The recent gestures in the field of Ja Morant have led to the NBA discipline.
The championship fined Memphis Grizzlies look at $ 75,000 Friday, one day after repeatedly imitated shooting a gun during the celebration during Thursday’s match against Miami Heat. The gestures of the Morant’s fingers arrived hours later The League warned He to refrain from using the celebration.
“Morant previously had been warned by the League’s Office that this gesture could be interpreted in a negative light,” said the NBA in a press release that announced the fine.
The previous warning of the NBA came after Morant’s friend and Golden State Hield did the gestures of the guns for the fingers during the Tuesday matchup. The League told the Grizzlies and the Warriors that the gestures were inappropriate and commissioned the players to stop using them, said a source of the championship. According to the source, the teams claimed that the gestures were not destined to be violent.
Ja Morant seemed to make a gesture of weapons at the Warriors bench late in the game 🤨 pic.twitter.com/ftvfa0wpit
– Warriors on NBCS (@nbcswarriors) April 2, 2025
However, Morant made the shooting movement several times against Miami in a game that ended with him marking the winning basket. He broke out the celebration after his first basket of the game and again after making a 3-pointer in the third quarter.
Morant, 25 years old, has been suspended twice in recent seasons for accidents related to weapons.
In March 2023, the NBA issued a suspension of eight games after Morant was seen brandishing a gun on Live Instagram while in a club for gentlemen in Glendale, Collo. He also lost the first 25 games of the 2023-24 season due to the suspension after he was seen holding a gun while riding in a machine on Instagram.
Ja Morant was issued a warning from the NBA for having made a weapons gesture on Tuesday evening.
Tonight, he reported the celebration. pic.twitter.com/p71z70okup
– The Athletic (@Theathletic) April 4, 2025
After the victory 110-108 on Miami, the guard said he was “well aware (of the speech)” of his reputation but is not annoyed.
“Every little thing,” Morant said when he was asked about the celebrations of the gun for his fingers. “If someone can say something negative about me, he will be out there. I don’t care anymore.”
“I’m used to it,” he added. “I have been practically a villain for two years now.”
The NBA does not have a rule against specific gestures, but the League has fined players for having made movements related to weapons in the past. In 2017, the then Phoenix Suns striker Josh Jackson was fined by $ 35,000 To manage a fan in a way that seemed to imitate a trigger. Gerald Green, so with Miami Heat, received a penalty of $ 25,000 for having made a Similar gesture in 2015.
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