{"id":435713,"date":"2023-05-17T00:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435713"},"modified":"2023-05-16T23:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T03:36:46","slug":"morant-takes-accountability-for-latest-video","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/morant-takes-accountability-for-latest-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Morant takes accountability for latest video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grizzlies&#8217; star Ja Morant spoke out Tuesday night about his latest video on social media that caused him new troubles. He commented on the three-days old video, which apparently showed him holding a firearm again while being broadcast on social media and was suspended by the Grizzlies from all team activities.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also being investigated by the NBA for his actions, two months after the league suspended him for essentially the same thing \u2014 displaying a gun on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019ve disappointed a lot of people who have supported me,\u201d Morant said in a statement released Tuesday night by his representatives. \u201cThis is a journey and I recognize there is more work to do. My words may not mean much right now, but I take full accountability for my actions. I\u2019m committed to continuing to work on myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ja Morant released a statement following his latest suspension. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zMAX2MSOiI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zMAX2MSOiI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1658668624700211202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The first video cost Morant about $669,000 in forfeited salary in March. The second was captured Saturday night and widely shared online. It was streamed on the Instagram account of Morant associate Davonte Pack, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the Grizzlies have not commented on the specifics of the latest video.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grizzlies&#8217; star Ja Morant spoke out Tuesday night about his latest video on social media that caused him new troubles. He commented on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":433435,"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":"\u201cI know I\u2019ve disappointed a lot of people who have supported me\u201d, he said","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\/435713"}],"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=435713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435713"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435713"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}