Commissioner: Ja Morant not on '肯定的な' path
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league stands ready to help Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant, 一時停止するd after a live-streamed ビデオ last month appeared to show him 持つ／拘留するing a handgun -- his second such ビデオ.
Speaking Thursday on the "Dan Patrick Show," Silver 繰り返し言うd he won't 発表する the results of a league 調査 into the ビデオ and any 罰 until after the NBA 決勝戦. The Grizzlies took swift 活動／戦闘 and 一時停止するd Morant 無期限に／不明確に from team activities に引き続いて the May 14 ビデオ.
Silver said any 罰 meted out will 含む carving a different path for Morant off the 法廷，裁判所.
"It's important to point out that this is not about just discipline, and then we'll just cross our fingers and then hope there's not a third time," Silver told Patrick. "I 認める that he needs some 援助 you know, from the league office, his union, his team. No 疑問 he's a remarkable player, and I think he's a very engaging young man. It's one of the 推論する／理由s he has this enormous に引き続いて on social マスコミ, but it's a two-辛勝する／優位d sword, and he has to own that and take 責任／義務 for it. And my hope is that wherever we come out (with) ーに関して／ーの点でs of discipline, that there's an 受託 that we need to find ways to engage with each other going 今後 so he can change the trajectory he's now on, which is not a 肯定的な one."
Silver said he is committed to helping Morant, 23, with his personal 開発.
"We're gonna 焦点（を合わせる） on him as a young man developing as a better person, as someone who's more responsible. 特に when it comes to guns. I mean, this is a really serious 問題／発行する," Silver said.
It was the second time in three months that Morant was caught with an 明らかな firearm on social マスコミ. He 以前 was 一時停止する d eight games and sought 助言 after a March 4 出来事/事件 in which he filmed himself 持つ／拘留するing a gun at a Denver （土地などの）細長い一片 club に引き続いて a loss to the Nuggets.
A 報告（する）／憶測 surfaced earlier this week that said the 明らかな 武器 Morant brandished in the most 最近の ビデオ could have been a toy, and Silver said the NBA is looking into that. He wouldn't say whether Morant 持つ／拘留するing a 偽の gun would make a difference but said he was "incredibly disappointed" to see Morant live streaming what looked like a handgun.
"I'm not going to get into the 明確な／細部s of the 調査," the commissioner said, "but in fact, if you are live streaming something that to the world looks 正確に／まさに like a gun, and in a 率直に, 無謀な manner, should it 事柄 whether or not it's a real gun?"
Morant is coming off his fourth season with Memphis since the Grizzlies selected him with the second 全体にわたる 選ぶ in the 2019 草案. A two-time All-星／主役にする, Morant 普通の／平均（する）d 26.2 points, 5.9 回復するs and 8.1 補助装置s in 61 games (59 starts) in 2022-23.
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