For those of you who don’t comprehend why being an NBA brandishing your weapons isn’t the same as some regular 9-5 laundromat worker, I refer you to the CBA.
It Would also be pretty naive to think that the Grizzlies didn‘t establish some restrictions under team code of contact with him after his last incident that targeted him flashing guns in public. He’s not a rapper on an independent label, he’s a member of the NBA players union and is consequently governed in accordance to their bylaws.