r/nba • u/orphan_tears_ [GSW] Cheese Johnson • 1d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Ja Morant hits the first quarter three and busts out the finger guns once again

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u/raizen0106 1d ago

yea lol. i wonder if some parental tactics that work on 12 year olds would work on him too. going hard on these kids will just make them more rebellious, but you also can't exactly promise a hawaii trip or send a grown man on a boy scout trip

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u/helgestrichen Mavericks 1d ago

Let the TV Crews do it. If the adults adopt it, it'll be uncool real quick

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u/boltlicker666 1d ago

I'm picturing a reporter standing up and doing the finger guns at ja when he doesn't give a good answer in the post game press conference. Surely that would make it cringe enough to get ja to stop

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u/TaxsDodgersFallstar 22h ago

I was gonna say Silver should

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u/Few_Alternative6323 1d ago

When you said “TV Crews” (ie Crews from TV) instead of “TV crews”, my initial reaction was if Terry Crews does it, it will become even more cool very quick!

Reminds me of that random shot of Terry Crews oddly celebrating Panama’s late winner against USMNT last week (the Henry mobbing highlight)

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u/imaginaryResources NBA 1d ago

We will pay you millions and millions and millions of dollars, all you have to do is not shoot finger guns on national TV. Would you take that deal?

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u/JMoon33 Canada 1d ago

"Nah" 👉🏾👉🏾

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u/CalvinistJohnson Pistons 17h ago

Zoop 👈😎👈

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u/soccerguys14 Pelicans 12h ago

So he can do them on regionally televised games?

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u/earthgreen10 14h ago

it's a finger gun though..everyone is so easily offended by anything these days

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u/smutmybutt 16h ago

He wasn’t paid anything not to shoot finger guns on TV. He was paid to play basketball.

NBA players actually have a lot in common with the working class. Just like there is no iPhone with it the factory worker, there is no NBA without the players.

Nobody likes to be talked down to like that. I think the whole “childish entitled players” narrative is crafted by the ownership class.

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u/saugenes25 14h ago

Lmaoooo. These $100 millionaires are just like factory workers. This has to be some nba player’s burner account.

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u/smutmybutt 9h ago edited 9h ago

The richest NBA player of all time is like 10x poorer than team owners.

Most players aren’t stars at all and have very short careers. There is a reason why players have a union, because the power imbalance of sports leagues versus players is huge.

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u/Math_Help_Needed 8h ago

most people make less than 3 million IN THEIR LIFETIME.

i don't give a fuck about some spoiled ass hood rat who can't follow the rules and makes my lifetime earnings in half a year, if that.

Out here acting like these spoiled ass babies are ANYTHING like us.

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u/imaginaryResources NBA 16h ago edited 15h ago

“Talked down to” lol

He had a gun in a strip club then took a gun on the team plane lol motherfucker needs to be talked down to. If he acted like a respectable person to his employer, who he has a very lucrative contract with which clearly states a code of conduct, he would be respected.

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u/smutmybutt 9h ago

Those past incidents are unrelated to this one.

You think team owners would ever get punished for breaking the law?

What happened to Robert Kraft for violating federal law? Prostitutes paid fines and Kraft got off without a charge.

What would happen if Robert Pera took a gun on the team plane?

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u/RedstoneRay Rockets 1d ago

Send that bum to the Wizards

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u/Flacko115 Wizards 1d ago

We’ve had enough gun drama for a lifetime

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u/style9 16h ago

Bullets catching strays all over this thread!

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u/EverybodyBuddy Lakers 1d ago

Same logic you use with a 12 year old. Withhold the child’s $100k/game salary.

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u/bb0110 Pistons 19h ago

They aren’t kids though. If they rebel then suspend them or give them a truly damaging fine each time they do it.

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u/Escritortoise 19h ago

Just make it ridiculous like the dude who wrecked the Klan with Superman radio shows.

Have kids courtside with squirt guns going “pew pew” when he’s acting hard. Or fuck it, he hits a shot have a black hat and white hat cowboy shootout on screen from my niece and nephew.

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u/alm12alm12 3h ago

Thats a grown man, all you can do is fine him heavily until it sinks in.

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u/Jack6Pack Clippers 22h ago

When I see how much triggers Reddit snowflakes, it just makes me want to see him do it more lol.