I haven’t been on reddit a lot lately, so this may not be a popular sentiment here but it’s definitely one i see every time a player is suspended on twitter. That “Ja Morant got 25 games for dancing with a toy gun on instagram but Draymond green chokes a guy and only gets 5.” I’ve seen this point brought up on essentially every dirty play anyone’s done so far this season.

Ja Morant wasn’t suspended for dancing with a gun. Along with a lot of weirdo petty reported stuff he’d been doing, he got suspended for 25 games because he got a short suspension midway through the year, made a whole show of going to therapy for like a week and a half and did a whole mini press tour and then did the same stupid stuff again.

The NBA doesn’t actually try and judge the severity of crimes, just if those players make the league look dumb. The NBA said “hey don’t do that again (^)*(publicly)*” and then Ja went “ah yes I’ll never do that again ^(publicly)” and then posted him with a fake(?) gun on his instagram story. Which like, in one sense, I think it’s dumb to suspend a guy longer for that than all the off the court stuff, especially the Josh Primo stuff, but also, like, wtf are you doing Ja?

  • 3rdEyeDeuteranopiaBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    David Stern suspended Sebastian Telfair two games for bringing a gun on a team plane and 3 games for being guilty of criminal possession of a weapon.

    Ja’s suspension was a lot higher, despite not being criminally charged like Telfair, because he’s a higher profile player and it made the league look bad.

    Draymond is a high profile player too and what he did also made the league look bad.

    People’s views on this really just matter on if they dislike Ja or Draymond.