Ja Morant is crazy, and sometimes kids suck.
Often times they suck.
I’d go as far to say that most kids suck.
Who among us hasn’t felt the urge to assault a child?
Maybe they’re kicking the back of your seat on the plane.
Or screaming on a plane.
Or if they’re on your plane at all.
Something about a kid on a plane really grinds my gears.
You obviously can’t do anything about it.
It’s wildly inappropriate.
But I understand the urge.
Unfortunately, the rarely level-headed Ja Morant couldn’t control himself.
I’m reading through the transcript of this trial right now.
It’s very funny.
I’m not going to post the whole thing here, but I recommend youread it.
Here’s the part where Ja Morant is questioned about the incident in detail.
Morant is now talking about the incident, which he says was between games.
Morant says Holloway set the ball at his feet.
“That’s disrespectful,” Morant said.
“Setting the ball at your feet in a check ball situation is disrespectful.”
Morant and Holloway were at the top of the three point line doing the check ball, Morant says.
It was later in the evening and the temperature was cooling down, he says.
Holloway rolled it back to Morant, who then threw a chest pass at Holloway.
Morant said Holloway did none of these things.
Carter now has the basketball again to demonstrate the check ball.
Morant says he threw a bounce pass, with backspin, to Holloway.
“So I hit him first, to protect myself,” Morant says.
Nothing overly special about that interaction.
I’d imagine that same scene goes down once a day at any busy basketball court in America.
But before he was able to swing, Ja popped him one first.
Again, you might’t do that Ja.
That’s how you end up in kangaroo court.
But that all seems pretty self-explanatory.
However, this lawyer wasn’t going to let the court take their word for it.
Maybe some people in the court room don’t understand how check ball works.
So he wanted to give the court a visual example of how check ball should be done.
I think I know exactly what this lawyer is doing.
This lawyer saw an opportunity.
How many chances in life do you get to toss the ball around with an NBA Superstar?
To hit Ja Morant square in the letters with a casual chest pass.
On camera no less.
Who could pass that up?
Maybe you’ll even get a tryout with the Grizzlies.
If this lawyer is smart, he’ll probably end up tricking Ja Morant into an autograph.
“Oh, I’m sorry Mr. Morant.
Just one more thing.
For record keeping purposes.
Would you mind stating your name for the court one more time?
Ok.. ok… how is that spelled?
I have a Sharpie right here.
Just do it how you’d normally sign your name on a basketball.
Ok yeah thanks I’ll hold onto this for the court.”
Civil Court is a weird place.
