twix2500 wrote:Shewasfly wrote:MettaWorldPanda wrote:It's also up to Ja to be a little bit more aware of what he's doing. He's not finger gun 3 pointing in celebration in this instance. Considering what he's gone through with the NBA whether it was fair or not he's got a lot of eyes on him.
I don't disagree with that either. Like I said, he's a dummy. But an investigation from the NBA? Give me a break. This shouldn't have warranted more than some commentary from sports talking heads saying he is, in fact, a dummy for that gesture considering his history, and then next topic. Just my opinion of course.
I get a lot do not follow things like this unless its national news. But the NBA has long cut out *gesture (jesters) like this for a long time and have fined players over 20 years for *gestures (ala throat thrashing). I was someone who is big on trash talking, *gestures, showing out. And it annoyed me when they cut it out in the pros but I actually get it. This is not the playground, and I am a person who been shot at, and people tried to jump me for trash talking. I played in the I'm gonna get my gun era. I played in park leagues where, a team is losing and one of their players go get their gun and shoot in the air to make everyone run and to stop the game. The league and the players do have a responsibility to not promote certian negative behaviors regardless in the moment it might be lighthearted. But history has shown many of these things lead to very bad outcomes. These are not the leauge jumping the gun (pun intended) to reactionary uproar.
And in regards to Morant, what is disturbing is not the jester alone. What is disturbing is unusually attraction, lack of control to guns and the ideas of shooting someone. You have to start to wonder what is really going on in his head? Are we gonna sit here one day and say all the signs were there?
I honestly think Ja is just one of these dudes that has grown up on the "Chief Keef" and those drill rapper types and that's just his normal. There's a whole generation of black guys who grew up listening to music and watching music videos with a bunch of shirtless, sweaty boys pointing guns at the camera and rapping aggressively. I do know some other stuff that he's struggling with, but I think that's mostly it. Like he doesn't even think about it, that's how embedded in him it is at this point (though he
should be thinking about it at this age and on this stage).
I'm not saying there isn't a social responsibility, but its just silly to me when so much worse things are let go. Like even Anthony Edwards gets no reprimand, and he would, to most sensible people anyway, have behaved despicably very recently and very publicly. And that too, involves a child. But the gun gesture is a bridge too far? Its just hypocrisy to me, period.
I had a lot of fun there! We only spent like 2 nights and it was a random trip lol but it was cool. Definitely check out Praia do Futuro like everyone says, but we enjoyed Aguas Belas the most because it was really chill.
But yes, it's nice to know it's there as soon as I'm able to go back home.
