{"id":436571,"date":"2023-05-24T15:27:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436571"},"modified":"2023-05-24T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:27:23","slug":"police-check-morant-after-worrying-social-media-posts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/police-check-morant-after-worrying-social-media-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Police check Morant after worrying social media posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Tennessee did a welfare check on Ja Morant after he posted strange messages on social media that worried Memphis Grizzlies and NBA fans. Ja told the authorities he was &#8220;taking a break from social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tennessee police conducted a welfare check on Ja Morant after Morant posted, then deleted, some concerning messages to his IG story.<\/p>\n<p>Morant was found to be &#8220;fine&#8221; per the Shelby County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, telling officers that he&#8217;s just &#8220;taking a break from social media,&#8221; per TMZ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RaCgLybpzA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RaCgLybpzA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Sporting News (@sportingnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportingnews\/status\/1661432369281400834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies guard shared and then deleted pictures of his family, saying that he loves them, and the last one was the one that distressed the public the most as he wrote &#8220;Bye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is fine,&#8221; the police office spokesperson announced to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Ja is not part of his franchise, as he is currently suspended after a video surfaced online in which he was holding a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis player notched more than 26 points during the regular campaign, and his franchise finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the Western Conference but then was eliminated in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round by the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Tennessee did a welfare check on Ja Morant after he posted strange messages on social media that worried Memphis Grizzlies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436572,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17281,16884,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17950,17838,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The police visited the NBA star house.","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\/436571"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436571"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436571"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}