Stephen A. addresses Ja Morant being away from the Memphis Grizzlies | First Take
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- Stephen A. addresses Ja Morant being away from the Memphis Grizzlies | First Take
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Brian Windhorst and Kendrick Perkins discuss Ja Morant being away from the Memphis Grizzlies indefinitely.
0:00 Recent incidents involving Ja Morant
1:49 Stephen A. discusses the situation
8:27 Perkins explains his perspective
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For those who keep defending his actions because of his age, Ja is not the only 24yo in the league. Jason Taytum grew up in a single parent home with little money. His neighbor would feed him and his young mom! because they had so little. While Ja had two parents jumping on tractor tires getting trained by his dad and goign to private school.
Jayson is 25 Ja is 23 😂there’s a slight difference
@@nothingbutnets9025there really isnt dude. Common sense says dont wave a gun around when you have a bag, or ever for that matter.
That's cool man, but everyone is different. Good for Tatum. It's still ok to say that Ja is young and was influenced differently by his surroundings than other people and maybe he needs some help. Are you implying that Ja doesn't deserve any compassion, understanding, and help because there are other people who are more mature than him? Come on man this comment doesn't help at all.
@SagePerception
Most of what you said was not True.
Nelly the Rapper would look out for Jayson. Jayson said himself he was brought up good and with money.
Ja morant the same way. This is 100% ja just wanting to fit in with a crowd.
These idiots out here thinking cause he young he can't ho to jail or be shot dead in the streets.
That Tatum comparison on point. Both same “around” the same age, yet drastically different levels of maturity.
Tatum is 25
Bro stop lying they’re not the same age.
@@Facedamusic When Tatum was 23 and he behaving just like he's now at 25.
@@GHermano41 he just turned 25 a few days ago
I’m more referencing when Tatum was the same age as Morant. Plus, generationally they’re the same. Tatum is one example, but how about Haliburton, Luka, Trae and etc. All of them are examples, too, if the Tatum one doesn’t do it for you.
I normally don’t like Perk’s takes, but he’s spot on - “keeping it real for WHO??”
Perk been on tv for a reason. we can laugh and make fun of some of his takes but he brings a whole dif perspectives that i actually enjoy hearing
1st time he’s ever said something solid & they cut him off at the end 🥴
What is keeping it real ?Im not American and is hear the fraze often but cant relate to it .ty
@@damiana3018 it’s base meaning is being true to oneself and not being influenced by external factors or pressures, but oftentimes takes on the notion of “being cool”, which, ironically, is opposite of the original meaning. So Perk is implying, “Are you being true to yourself, or just trying to be cool to an image you think your friends and the outside world want you to be?”
@@brianchu8147 bro just wrote an essay for a foreigner, I think he’s more confused now 😭
Can Brian go for a second without blinking? 😂😂
That’s what I hate..soon as somebody do something abnormal or make a mistake; they bring up mental health. Everybody don’t suffer from that or has mental health issues. Ja just did something stupid..that’s what he did.
Exactly. Like depression is definitely real but he has all the help in the world. Don't sit here and lecture people with real life problems saying poor guy in a club drinking flashing guns with a 200 mil contract signed.
It is mental health, go check psychologial books. The behaviour he showed the last few weeks, he needs some therapy
Excuses is some people best friend...Let me find my mental health friend
They say it all the time after mass shootings instead of calling it what is murder.
Problem is that he has been doing lots of stupid things lately.
Ja went from point guard to shooting guard 😂
I should not laugh at this but here we are lol
I wonder if he shoots guns a lot or if he just has guns?
@@RoyMunson never shot nothing
🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He not a shooting guard.
He ain't shoot nothing
Nor will he.
He shows his gun just to look cool
Perk hit it on the nail with his take. Hopefully Ja can learn from this and get the help he needs.
Spot on !! I hope he learns from this mishap and gets its together. It’s not worth it Ja.
Stupidity is now a mishap?
Imagine pretending to belive that JA actually wrote that apology lol
@John d
He can barely hold a gun no way he holding a pen/pencil that long
I'm waiting for someone in his camp to say it was a toy gun.
@1990758
His PR Team probaly told him that wasn't a good idea.
But I bet they tried
lol you understand a pr team tries to make the best of whatever disaster situation is thrown at them, whatever ja said was gonna be a L 😂
It's such a lazy take! Applaud him for writing an apology?! Until you actually hear it from his mouth, I don't believe it!
Ja Morant is a living example of when keeping it real goes wrong Dave Chappelle is a genius
Or in the words of Chris Rock "just keeping it real, real dumb".
I don't like people playin on my phone!
Goated skit.
Big facts. 💯
How would the NBA know if you’re puffin and passin? I swear Stephen A be reaching
smartest bit of First Take I've seen, I think
Great take perk. I hope these guys take your advice.
The “better methods of dealing with stress” part is crazy 😂. Is he telling us he was stressed, therefore he wanted to flash a gun while rapping shirtless at a nightclub after a loss?
That was the agent, damage control.
Something could be up where he thinks that flaunting that lifestyle brings him happiness. Meaning something is wrong with his mental health where he relies on acting a fool to feel complete
Exactly!
In all actuality though, when people are trying really hard to look tough or violent, they are scared that someone is coming to get them thats why theyre trying to put a front on of "dont mess with me, im violent" . I think he's paranoid mentally. Doesnt excuse it but definitely ive met people in my life who are full of anxiety and stress and the way they let off steam is try to act hard, because they're scared they will be a target one day.
Both him and his agent are CLOWNS!!!!
Perk said it perfect 💯
Perk was TALKIN!! 💯
This is a Well Spoken and Powerful Segment about Ja Morant
Man I can't stop looking at how many times Brian is blinking 🤣
😂
Yooow that cannot be normal
Jajajajaja xd
Cocaine?
Prior stroke/drug use?
Windhorst blinked his eyes a record number of times per minute. Well done, sir.
I’d read your comment and as soon as I looked at Windy, he was blinking 100 times a minute lol
Lol 😂
Omg SO FUNNY
😂😂😂
You ruined my focus
Not the black and mids perk!!!!!!!😭🤣😭🤣🤣🤣😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭🤣 that made my day omggg
Honestly perk and SA had great takes 💯
I'm confused, how is he stressed waving a gun, the PR team will always make athletes look like victims. You guys have to stop using mental health as a cop out. I can't stand when media use mental health.
exactamente mi hermano
100000% W
I never believe half these players on mental health. I get they have problems but they have the resource now to solve all their problems.
I'm confused to y y'all acting like he killed somebody
@poof Exactly, have a mental health issue, but don't bring it up when you have a problem that you created that may involve the law. That's not mental health that's stupidity.
Why is nobody talking about the fact that it's clearly Ja's PR team that wrote that for him. And he just posted it. We didn't hear it from his mouth. And how is he stressed waving a gun in a club flashing his grills and chains on camera lmao. Cmon now.
@Vikramjeet Singh
Facts.
Ja aint writing no statement
The last 2 incidents that happened he brushed it off and accused the media of doing too much
He trying to be a rapper so bad lmao
So now you going at his intelligence because he waves gun and wear jewelry.smh
@Phil B
And he still can't Rap
So he better try something else.
nobody really cares. that's what a PR team does. yes people would like to hear him speak the words himself but this is literally the purpose of a PR team
“Perk put the black n milds down” took me out 😂😂
Facts Speak Louder Than Narratives. FACTS.
Stephen A low key walking on eggshells with this one. You can tell he has a relationship he’s trying to protect.
he had the best take ive heard so far
He applauds morant but rips kyrie
Exacty, its pathetic
@@skillsmachine9164 exactly pure evils an hate
Yep, the PR person from Ja did the job right, they already got a big media personality (love it or hate it) on their side talking about sympathy, if that big dominoes fall then more will soon follow
When keeping it real goes wrong. - Dave Chappelle
Except there’s nothing real about his act.
@@someguy7424 WUTANG!
@@someguy7424 you haven't seen that episode have you?? Thats the point of the comment
Drop yo addy cuh
@@someguy7424 take the L. If you didn’t watch Chappelle’s show then at least watch a clip of when keeping it real goes wrong.
Good message Stephen A.
Buddy sending Morse code with all that blinking 😅
I hope he learns from his behavior. Or in a few years, we are going to be watching a 30 for 30 special about the tragic story of a young man who had the world in his hands and threw it all away due to his poor choices. Never mind his career, some of the situations he has been involved in could cost him his life. All it would take is being in the wrong place at the wrong time just once.
Nope.
In order for him to learn he will have to fall. Suspension is not a fall. Sadly. This will continue he will just try to do a better job of hiding it
He's not gonna learn from anything he's probably watching television and saying whatever.
@1990758
The only way he learns is if he goes to jail. If not he will continue. He will just do a better job of hiding it
@@JOHN-zl5kw Jesus a little extreme lol
Facts!
I've seen some dumb moves by pro athletes in my day, but I'm usually empathetic because many of them really did come from a rough environment. Never in all my years have I seen a kid go to private school, come from a good family (his father is at every game wearing his jersey!).
Ja is literally trying to escape the NBA and get to the hood. Make it make sense..
I does not make any sense at this time
crestwood is not a private school, but the rest is spot on. it makes no sense.
@@brendan1174 it ain’t a hood school either so….
FACTS ON EVERY WORD YOU STATED
It's called hustling backwards and sadly is something that affects mostly African American communities 😢 cause (for the most part) they have embellished and exalted this 'thug life' thing as something to aspire to be, hope he learns and is not too late but I just have a feeling that in this day and age, he might get his shoe deal taken away at the very minimum, remember the Gilbert Arenas situation, so that could be some sort of precedent for what is gonna come for Ja
“Who are you doin it for?”
Never thought id hear something insanely insightful from perk👏
Why is Windy blinking like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He's not even from the hood and that's one of the most annoying things about this situation.
Yes he is. Southside bro.
@@thomassims4618 I’m fairly sure he lived in a nice suburban neighborhood.
@@thomassims4618 he ain’t stupid
@@thomassims4618 Yeah, private school Southside 🙄.
@@basketballjohnson3124 I’m fairly sure you’re wrong
Let’s not pretend like Ja issued this statement. We need to be handing the credit to his PR team.
@@themack74 Really??? Wake up! That’s how this works!
@@themack74 you cant be that duBm
@@themack74 if Ja was smart enough to write this letter he wouldn't be writing this letter
@@themack74 a lot of duBm comments from you on this thread. just stop or go back to school.
@@themack74 lmfao Ja is dumb. That's why he has a PR to say things for him. Coz like what others on this thread said, if he really was that intelligent, he won't be even in this shtty situation to begin with lol
I’m thrilled that this discussion is being had. Y’all ball players gotta chill with all that super thug non sense. Keep it real by building up your community.
Perk kept it aaaaaaaallllll the way 💯. This needed to be said. Especially from a black man. Salute.
Perk made a great point.
In the past comments,
Some of us was saying Ja humble yourself...Some of us was saying his Dad needs to sit down and be a dad not a fan boy
......Months later hold our beer
Thank you Confucius.
@@moogogaipan lmao
Excellent Tatum comparison. Both were "around" the same age, yet their levels of maturity were vastly different.
I died when sas said puffing or passing
The way some athletes throw around mental health whenever they mess up or playing bad is so crazy cause it undermines people who are dealing with it for real. Mental health is not a thing you can doubt when someone says they are dealing with it but when Ja doing things that counter his whole point.
D-rose probably thinking what a waste of knees 😂.
“Keep it real fah who!?” 💀🤣🤣
Wow great commentary
Although I am a Grizzlies fan and have admired Ja Morant talent, I believe the Grizzlies should have taken a harder line with him when the first two incidents happened as you could seen than the train wreck that was about to happen. He needs help and to take responsibility for the choices he has made. He needs better mentorship to grow into the leader he needs to be and a better support system around him, that means if his friends or family are not in the same boat they need to get off, I hope he gets it together so he is able to continue to share his talent with the world.
That’s because the whole grizzlies team and coach has issues
The issue with pacers should have gotten him out the league.
@@tommyl3707 I don't agree it's not as simple as that. There are many good things about the Grizzlies organization and their culture, however there are also areas they need to strengthen particularly when you have a young team, they are trying to find a balance between letting them be confident and free in their play but there is a fine line with that when you have alot of young players still maturing.
@@judithhapi687 we all seen the train wreck coming so don’t act like we didn’t see them just play with this young man’s life for a narrative
A lot of issues need to be addressed 1 big one being NCAA players getting paid too much money and Ja is giving reasons not to give them more money.. it’s bigger than basketball
can't believe how soft Stephen A's take was. He comes down harder when players smoke weed for crying out loud.
He comes down harder on people that are white.
hes treading lightly as to not offend the wrong one
He's scared of Ja's goons 😂
Thats tru, i am surprised..
Because that’s what disappointment sounds like
Ja and entire Grizzlies team need to have a fireside chat with Uncle Shannon.
Lavar ball looking like father of the year to me right about now. Espn need to show this man respect
Big perk kept it a FULL BUCK with this!!
1000
That's this Memphis air he breathing. He just blending in.
Naaa
Don't blame memphis.
His dad go everywhere he go.
Lmao, I heard Memphis makes you like that
the fam fumblin the 💰
Perk talking STRAIGHT FACTS.
In some cases, you could say having kids at a young age could help you mature faster as a man. Tatum seems like he went down the right path after having his son. Ja Morant has a daughter, so you would think he would slow down a little bit, but I think his pops enables him to act a fool, but what do I know...
Mental health is a cop out for real, that’s just stupidity and youthfulness. Ja needs to grow up and cut those idiots around him.
Someone had to say it
@@chrismendez3415 indeed, the media can be funny at times
Why bro in the middle blinking so much🤣
Stephen A and Perk 1000% on this!!👏🏾
Well said Stephen A. Nothing should be added.
Ja reminds me of those dudes who post selfies with guns and stacks of 100s and swear they hard
SAS should be proud of the progress he's made, in regards to being knowledge and understanding about mental health. He's been burned a bunch in that area and he's clearly tried to grow. Props to you man
1000% agree. Move on to the next topic. What will be, will be with this one. The whole Memphis team needs an attitude adjustment.
Not that im for this, but you'd think Nike would remove Ja from their endorsements like they did Kyrie since Ja did something way worse than posting a link to a subjectively hateful movie, right?
let’s be real, the contract situation with nike (he would’ve been a shoe FA in a couple of months anyway) and the fact that he criticized the work on his last shoes made it easy for nike to get rid of him. i don’t think they’ll drop him
I'm not throwing hate on Ja but I think Kyrie being treated wrongly once it come to the media n this league
@@crisomii Whether Kyrie criticized them or not, that wasnt the reason they let go of him & replaced him wif Ja. It was cause of a post that was so supposedly so harmful that Nike couldnt bare to have someone that would post such a hateful thing represent them. Well, do they represent shirtless athletes thuggin it out wif a gun at a nightclub? If not i would expect them to drop Ja. Just basing this assumptions according to what their standards are suppose to be
I don't think they would but if they did everyone would say that they are racist.
This aint got nothing to do with Kyrie.
I am very surprised they didn't scrutinize him. I am very glad they touched on mental health because people act out in many ways for help, Ja may not have anyone in his circle he can talk to or trust.
Then he simply doesn't have a good support system around him and that is 100% on him
Preach OG Perk 🏀🐐
2 parent household and private school his whole life, Ja should be grateful he didn’t have to live in the hood
Iirc Ja's HS was a public school
That doesn't mean anything . You can have everything going for you and you can go out and kill somebody. It doesn't matter how many parents you have how much wealth you have. What type of school you are going to.
@@1990758 his point is, Ja ain’t from the streets. Now that he’s in the NBA he got yes men enabling him to be a thug when he isn’t.
But there are a lot of n b a players like that. That people tell them yes yes. So they can get paid.
Never knew so many wp knew so much about "the hood" lol...
Ja is the definition of the character in the movie Malibu's Most Wanted
THIS ONE!
I was gonna say, he wants to be a GTA character
Y’all don’t even know this man in real life tho to say that 😂 we know what they show us and what we try and go and look for it’s not about being gangster or not he down in Memphis and became a part of that environment I feel
@@terrencemack591 nah dis was funny 😂
@@terrencemack591 you got millions, quit using the environment line as a way to make sense over a 24 year old pointing a gun at a 17 year old.
good talk
Well spoken
Brian has to be the person who blinks the most in the world, I tried to keep up with him that boy don't stop
Because he is about to laugh or is tired of listening SAS rants beacuse he says the same things over and over again.
Dudes signal is weak and he’s glitching 😂 Refresh refresh Brian
Wilbon said it perfectly. The problem is the culture. In no other culture is being gangster so sensationalized.
Never get ahead with that mentality.
“Half-way crook” 😂
Shopping mall security ? Oh sorry big man 🤣🤣
9:20
Spot on by Perkins!
Perk was on point today with every topic. ✊🔥
Perk was still out of line for dissing Larry bird and dirk saying they only were viewed good because they were white. Dirk cooked LeBron n wade and being white had nothing to do with it
@@JOHN-zl5kw because perc is a trashy racist. Hes literally defending ja and i promise you its because ja is black
@@JOHN-zl5kw Easy to be racist as a black man.
@Mandingo
I hate to say it.
But you're Right.
Perk n Shannon sharp stay insulting and dissing white people and get off Scott free.
I'm black and I respect dirk and Bird game.
So because of Ja and a handful of other players, young black kids aren't going to get the same opportunities in the NBA. Weed also apparently makes you do criminal things. This is classic ignorant comments, instead of keeping it with this one person and how they messed up.
Perk validated his street cred when he brought up Black N Milds 😆
The only way Ja will survive this is for him to disassociate himself from the bad company that he is keeping.
That’s going to be difficult for him. I don’t think that he can or will. Street loyalty to your “boys” is strong.
My fear is he’s in too deep.
I disagree. Blaming the people he hangs around kinda absolves him of accountability. Nobody put a gun to his head and made him do this.
Good JA has friends who make him look like idiot
Why are we keep saying that it's his "bad company" is the source of this? Many people grow up in bad neighborhoods or had not so great friends with positive influence but grow up fine. Better yet, this dude has the bank to set him apart if needed with the money he's got or get some smart, mature people with brains to surround himself with if he really can't think and make decisions on his own. Blame is 100% on him. Not on his friends and not on his "mental health issues".
If anything, it is Ja who wanted and formed that company he has now. He has the money and he is the boss. Not even his father can control him.
Someone like him doesn’t even need a gat he’s well protected. The private school gangsta.
I like how Stephen A summed up this situation. Ja needs to listen
Woj blinking HELLA👀🤣
Smoking black n milds in the league is crazy perk 😅😂😂
Big Perk speaking all facts!!
This is simply reminding me of a quote from Equalizer 2
“Man" ain't spelled G-U-N, son.
"we from the streets!" 😭😭😭
“We’re good in the West” lol
Well said Stephen A and Perk. 💯
Westside bro
Where was this energy with KYRIE hypocrisy
I want to know/see the video. Where and what was he doing with the gun?
When getting too cocky backfired.
He did not write that statement his agent did😂
We don’t take about 90% of the things we know !
Media bosses will be like what did we leave ? 😅😂
Dude in the middle blinks hella lol
Perk speaking facts when he's talking about the Grizzlies team as a whole and their childish character but especially what he said about the African American community.
As a wise Shannon Sharpe said, "Don't hustle backwards"
Surround this brotha with the right people!!! His Daddy needs to be a father right now to this brotha!!! Please don’t waste this opportunity
Okay but why Wendy blinking so much 😂🤣
Perk speaking...I remember when I was young and I called myself trying to hustle the real ones told me to keep that ball in my hand...college degree decent career now kid by one woman no baby mamas
Wow... Perk made sense and is not afraid to call out the cultural message being sent to the youths of America. You don't need to act a certain way to fit in.
Yes but their channel promotes" the culture" , the NBA is in bed with hip hop , Ja is a byproduct of this.
Perk was on point!
"You went to Cranbrook, that's a private school. What's the matter, dawg? You embarrassed?
This guy's a gangster? His real name's Clarence"
Lord i really hope this lead to a change in the community. Even if he WERE from that type of place, thats not how you embrace it. You embrace it by setting a good example and showing them you can rise from nothing and turn that nothing into something
People don't realize these are Ja decisions. These aren't happening by accident. He wants it to. He wasn't forced to go to the strip club. He wasn't forced to fight the 17 year old. He wanted to. Everyone saying he needs to change and he will lose millions or where is his father don't understand. Just because he has millions and a great job doesn't control what he wants to do. Stephen Jackson is a multi million dollar man, yet he CHECKS IN into hoods just to show people he in the hood
Amen
facts
Agreed
Ja bout to make it out the NBA with this one 🔥
gotta get them likes huh
@@hardhungheads Criticism has to happen for a reason. Kid has to grow up, and fast before he ends up like others or worse.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@hardhungheads 😂😂😂😂😂
that ben simmons comment killed me