Morant trades a grenade gun, will continue celebrations until “problem”

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Last week, the NBA He brought a fine of $ 75,000 after morals giving more imaginary gestures to target a guns that were considered “inappropriate”. He used to warn the league office so that this gesture could be interpreted in the negative light and when Morant ignored warnings, he received the sentence.

In fact, Morant has doubled, adopting a new celebration with another belief weapon: a grenade. He debuted him on Tuesday during Memphis Grizzlies‘124-100 wins over Charlotte Hornets. After sinking the 3-pointers, Morant mimicked the throwing explosives in the stalls and then covered the ears so that he could protect himself from the explosion.

“It’s my celebration now until someone else has a problem with that, and I’ll find another,” Morant said Thursday after the arrow.

When Morant says “someone”, refer to the NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and officials who were responsible for issuing previous warnings and fines. However, that is not the one that Morant should deal with. His antibodies become a problem for his team.

“This is who (Morant), where he just likes to leg on the line” Paul Pierce The edition of Friday “saidSpeak“.” It is tilted who is, but the thing is that we don’t want to talk about that in the locker room.

“It should be about basketball at this time.”

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As the controversy around Moranta continues, so he fights with grizzly. Memphis lost eight of his last 12 games and descended from another seed at the Western Conference that he was tied to the seventh seed with playoffs around the corner. While some of this could be a consequence of Memphis who decides to fire the former chief coach of Taylor Jenkins and should adapt to the new system under current Tuomas Head Coach, Morant did not help the situation.

“This is a team that has a playoff aspiration and it is something new with him who is not about basketball,” Pierce added. “Like a team leader, like a guy who used to be the face of the NBA … He has to say,” You know what? It’s time to grow a little and take responsibility for being a leader …

“There’s nothing wrong with being a villain,” Pierce added. “I consider yourself bad guys, but I did it differently. If there were a hero and negatively. If he was willing to deal with those things and leaned him in this and leaned in it where he was not in those things or okay.”

The associated press has contributed to this report.

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