I morant trades a granate gun, will keep the celebration until there is a “problem”

I Morant continues with negative reasons to land in titles.

Last week, Nba He handed over a fine of $ 75,000 after Morant made multiple thoughtful gestures in court who were considered “inappropriate”. Previously, the league’s office warned him that this gesture could be interpreted in a negative light, and when Morant neglected warnings, he received a sentence.

In fact, Morant doubled himself, adopting a new celebration with another weapon that believed: Granata. He made him debut on Tuesday during Grizlies‘124-100 Win over Charlotte Hornets. After sinking 3-poen, Morant imitated the explosives into the stands and then covered his ears as could be protected from the explosion.

“That’s my celebration now while someone else has no problem with that, and I’ll find another one,” Morant said on Thursday after shooting Grizzlies.

When Moranda says ‘someone’, he thinks of the NBA commissioner Adam Silver -Ai of the officials who were responsible for issuing previous warnings and fines.

However, it is not who the Morant should deal with. His lunatics are a problem for his team.

“This is that (morant), where he simply loves to wear a line,” Paul Pierce said Friday on “Speak“. ” It is leaning into what it is, but the thing is, we don’t want to do what we have to talk about in the locker room. There should be a basketball at this point. “

Seemingly, as the controversy around the morant enhanced, his bits failed. Memphis lost eight of his last 12 games and fell with another seed at the western conference that he was tied to the seventh seed with the playoffs just around the corner.

Although something could agree to Memphis, who decided to release former chief coach Taylor Jenkins and adapt to the new system under the current head coach Tuomas Iisal, Morant did not help the situation.

“This is a team that has the aspiration of the playoffs, and it is something new that is not in basketball,” Pierce added. “As a team leader, like a guy who once considered himself a NBA face, I just think, at some point he has to say, you know what is” time to grow up a little and take responsibility to be a leader, be a role model and be someone who can depend on the night in night and night. “

The Morant did not lose the locker room, but he set a bad picture for a full young player.

“That’s good for him,” a teammate Vince Williams Jr. said. “He has to save money. Everything he uses to save money, I’m all for that, honestly.”

“I would go to that too,” Williams added about Morant’s celebration.

The Granata celebration also performed criticism from the TNT Studio team on Thursday night. Kenny Smith noted that Morant “has history that maybe you should not do it.”

Shaquille O’Neal added, “She knows what she is doing because you will continue to talk about it.”

As for Charles Barkley, he said that the happiest person may be Jenkins, who was fired on March 28, because “he cannot deal with this immature thing.”

Return to what Pierce said – this is Morant. He is “sharp”. Enjoys being a “villain”. That’s not a problem. This is the way he embodies that person.

“There’s nothing wrong with being a villain,” Pierce explained. “I consider myself a villain, but I did it in a different way. If he will lean into (it), let him be so. Some responsibility come with a hero and a villain. Some of them are negatively criticized. If he is willing to deal with these things and lean into him where he does not bring him into problems with things or things on the field.”

The question is currently Morand’s story has become about his controversial celebration, not how he raises his team to success.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

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