Ja Morant was frustrated after a rough shooting night (3-of-14) and scoring just eight points in a loss to the Lakers on Halloween. After the game, he threw the coaches under the bus. The next afternoon, the Grizzlies suspended Morant one game for “conduct detrimental to the team.” Morant will miss Sunday night’s game at Toronto. After Friday night’s loss …
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The Memphis Grizzlies announced Saturday that Ja Morant has been suspended one game for conduct detrimental to the team. According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, Morant was called out by head coach Tuomas Iisalo after Friday night’s 117-112 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Morant finished with eight points and seven assists, shooting 3-of-14 from the field. There were a number …
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The Grizzlies have suspended point guard Ja Morant for one game for conduct detrimental to the team, the team announced today in a press release (Twitter link). According to Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link), head coach Tuomas Iisalo challenged Morant’s “leadership and effort” following Friday’s loss to the Lakers. Morant responded to Iisalo in a “tone deemed inappropriate,” sources …
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The Memphis Grizzlies have suspended Ja Morant for one game for conduct detrimental to the team, the club announced Saturday. The suspension comes after Morant made controversial postgame comments following Friday’s loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Morant went 3-for-14 from the field with eight points, seven assists, and one rebound over 31 minutes in the 117-112 defeat. Following the …
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Grizzlies star Ja Morant was suspended one game for “conduct detrimental to the team,” the team announced. Morant criticized the Memphis coaching staff following their loss to the Lakers on Friday — when he collected just eight points and made just three shots — when fielding a question about what went wrong and saying, “Go ask the coaching staff.” Then, …
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The Memphis Grizzlies suspended star point guard Ja Morant for one game because of conduct detrimental to the team. The suspension comes as a result of first-year Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo challenging Morant’s leadership and effort in a postgame exchange after Friday night’s 117-112 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers — to which Morant responded in a tone deemed inappropriate …
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