It's not only the gangstar stuff but also the fact that a player like Ja Morant who depends on his explosiveness and athleticism must take better care of his body in order to have a long and successful career. His lifestyle suggests a fast life. Looking at AI as example, I always thought his peak was short.
Peter Popoff
Baba Yega in black uptowns
That niģga mad fućking stupid dawg...
The word is Ja’s an alcoholic on some AI shyt. Also, for all the narratives about him being a good kid frontin the role, he might just not be that. His mother calling him to the mall to settle her beef doesn’t exactly sound like Jack & Jill behavior. He moved all his rough and tumble nikkas to Memphis with him, which is another problem. He’s surrounded by enablers, and he’s the Golden Goose. Recipe for disaster.
Somebody on twitter called this nikka “NBA Dumboy”
the artist known az
Hail the victors
I've been wondering why she didn't call her husband. Ja really run they whole family
It’s my personal theory that she got into it with Finishline as she thought that the Nike plug applied there as well, which would explain why she called Ja instead of the husband.
the artist known az
Hail the victors
From what I heard from other athletes in interviews over the years is if you're signed to say Nike, you get a catalog to order whatever you want. Maybe that changed over the years but seems like she could've avoided that by having him order what she wanted
murksiderock
Superstar
Sumter is 3 hours from me here in Raleigh, 2 hours from Fayetteville where I spend time and there's a lot of crossover between Fayetteville and the SC Pee Dee/Lowcountry (Fayetteville is less than an hour from the SC border, like 45 minutes)...
I'm too old, I don't know a single person who has known Ja. But him being from so close to here, people who follow ball know that and there's been obvious conversation about him, just in general, since he came into The League...
No one I've ever heard talk about Ja is under the impression Ja is a street cat. People know he has blue collar origins, he didn't grow up in the streets.
Sumter is quite a rough little town, I've been a couple times, maybe twice. He isn't even from the actual city or its rough areas, Ja a country boy who grew up on back dirt roads in a tiny ass town outside Sumter. There's old videos you can find of where he grew up, and more importantly watch his public evolution, he didn't always act the way he does now...
So something changed...
Like I said earlier, he didn't grow up with a silver spoon. But he didn't grow up poor nor did he come from "the trenches", nor I a family that steered that way to him. So this is a voluntary change in behavior...
To your point though, he did go to school in Sumter and grew up close enough, so it's entirely believable he befriended guys who are from that journey in Sumter. I believe that, and it's clear he values the ideas and persona of those kind of people. Those are the people he brought to Memphis...
And yall gotta understand, while Memphis is "small market" in sports terms, it's not an actual "small" city and particularly for Ja, his boys and his family, Memphis is the BIG city. It's a bigger city than anywhere I South Carolina by multiples. It's like cats who grow up in yhe Sip or Arkansas who gravitate to Memphis, same dynamic for Ja. Memphis is a BIG city to him. It's more movement and shyt going on than he's ever been around in his life, he went to college in a Kentucky town smaller than Sumter. He ain't never seen nothing like Memphis...
You take that culture shock and add it with Memphis' brand, relevancy, and popularity in hip hop, that shyt has gone straight to his head. He doesn't know how to handle it...
The Iverson comparisons people are doing, while there's some slight overlap, it's a false equivalency. The only strong parallel is the desire to keep around lifelong homies who you probably shouldn't. Their backgrounds aren't the same. Iverson grew up in the projects in one of Bad News worst hoods, single mother, in the 80s and 90s. Iverson wasn't actually busting plays or shots either but he was from a much more daunting reality than Ja with more influences to go the other way than Ja. Iverson is from that "trenches" reality...
The Iverson comps aren't really just, except if Ja doesn't reign this shyt in he could cost himself a more promising career, just like AI...
the artist known az
Hail the victors
That's what I think it is. Small Town country boy in a big city gravitating to Memphis rap/street culture surrounded by enablers
I’m trying to understand make this make since
LV Koopa
Jester from Hell
The AI comp I'm hearing is strictly extreme alcoholism, including before games.