Ja Morant fined $75,000 for gun gestures after ignoring warning from NBA

After Ja Morant doubly flashed weapon gestures during games, the NBA came down hard connected him.

The Memphis Grizzlies prima was fined $75,000 for "twice making an inappropriate motion connected the playing court."

The NBA confirmed reports it had warned Morant the motion "could beryllium interpreted successful a antagonistic light."

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Memphis Grizzlies defender Ja Morant reacts aft a handbasket during the 2nd 4th against the Golden State Warriors. (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)

Morant archetypal made the motion Monday against the Golden State Warriors, and reports said the NBA was investigating the incident, giving Morant and Buddy Hield a warning.

On Thursday night, Morant did it again, conscionable 5 minutes into a game.

Considering Morant’s past with gun-related suspensions, the motion blew up crossed the hoops world. He was suspended 8 games successful March 2023 aft brandishing a handgun connected societal media astatine the portion nine Shotgun Willie’s extracurricular Denver. 

Then Morant was suspended for the archetypal 25 games of the 2023-24 play aft helium flashed a handgun again connected a unrecorded societal media video. 

Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies dribbles the shot during a crippled against the Miami Heat April 3, 2025, astatine Kaseya Center successful Miami, Fla. (Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Ahead of the suspensions, Morant recovered himself successful occupation connected much than 1 occasion, including 1 incidental successful which helium got into a combat with a 17-year-old during a pickup hoops crippled astatine Morant's home. A justice aboriginal ruled Morant acted successful self-defense. Four days earlier, Morant allegedly "threatened" the caput of information astatine a Memphis mall, and a subordinate of Morant's radical allegedly shoved the information authoritative successful the head. 

Memphis Grizzlies defender Ja Morant dances arsenic overtime expires against the New Orleans Pelicans astatine Smoothie King Center.  (Stephen Lew/USA Today Sports)

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Morant was besides placed nether the microscope aft a January 2023 crippled successful which an unidentified idiosyncratic successful the NBA star's conveyance was accused of shining a laser pointer astatine the Indiana Pacers' squad bus. It happened aft immoderate members of Morant's entourage were progressive successful a confrontation with a radical of radical successful the Pacers' traveling party.

Fox News' Scott Thompson and Chantz Martin contributed to this report.

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