{"id":428385,"date":"2023-03-05T02:10:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T07:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428385"},"modified":"2023-03-05T00:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T05:16:03","slug":"grizzlies-morant-gets-at-least-two-games-suspension-after-gun-video","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/grizzlies-morant-gets-at-least-two-games-suspension-after-gun-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies&#8217; Morant gets at least two games suspension after gun video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant has been given a two-game ban by the team after he was seen displaying what appeared to be a gun at a nightclub on his Instagram live account early on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>An NBA spokesman said the league was aware of the post and was investigating. Morant apologized later on Saturday and said he planned to take some &#8220;time away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take full responsibility for my actions last night. I&#8217;m sorry to my family, teammates, coaches, fans, partners, the city of Memphis and the entire Grizzlies organization for letting you down,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ja Morant released a statement following the Grizzlies&#8217; announcement that he will be away from the team for at least the next two games.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA is currently investigating an Instagram Live video in which he displayed a gun while at a nightclub early Saturday morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jlzVe5YhGa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jlzVe5YhGa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1632133578573115398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe suspension comes after the 23-year-old All-Star was the subject of a Washington Post report this week that said he was accused in police reports of punching a teenager repeatedly during a pickup basketball game and later emerged with a gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant has been given a two-game ban by the team after he was seen displaying what appeared to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":397011,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17281,16884],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17950,17838],"acf":{"announce":"\"I take full responsibility for my actions last night.\", he said on Saturday","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428385"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428385"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}