TMZ<\/a>, According to police documents, a 17-year-old — who filed the lawsuit on Sept. 9 — told cops he was playing in a pickup basketball game with Morant at the house … when the two got into a verbal altercation.<\/p>\nThe plaintiff, according to the docs, said the argument became heated, and he threw a basketball at Morant — “accidentally” hitting him in the face. The teenager said the Grizzlies point guard then approached him, put his chin on his shoulder, and asked a bystander “Should I do it to him?” The teen says Morant then struck him “with a closed fist, knocking him to the ground.”<\/p>\n
According to the docs, the 17-year-old said Morant then “continued sticking him while on the ground” — and claims another man jumped in and began hitting him as well.<\/p>\n
>In the docs, cops say Morant told them he did strike the teenager, but insisted he was acting in self-defense. Morant said the plaintiff threw the ball at him “intentionally” during the argument, and then “began to approach him as if he wanted to fight.”<\/p>\n
Police say Morant also told them “his brother” was involved in the altercation as well — but the basketball player did not name the man.<\/p>\n
According to the docs, police investigated the allegations for several weeks … before they submitted the case to the district attorney’s office on Oct. 4. Less than a month later, cops say the DA declined prosecution.<\/p>\n
It’s unclear what the plaintiff is seeking in the suit. Court records show Morant, as well as his childhood friend\u00a0Davonte Pack<\/strong>, are listed as defendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the docs, police investigated the allegations for several weeks … before they submitted the case to the district attorney’s office on Oct. 4. Less than a month later, cops say the DA declined prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":311392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-311393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"\n
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