{"id":436419,"date":"2025-04-04T08:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436419"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:25:53","slug":"ja-morant-wins-in-miami-repeats-finger-gun-gesture-despite-nba-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ja-morant-wins-in-miami-repeats-finger-gun-gesture-despite-nba-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Morant wins in Miami, repeats finger-gun gesture despite NBA warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1622\">Ja Morant made headlines once again Thursday night by <strong data-start=\"1435\" data-end=\"1471\">mimicking a gun with his fingers<\/strong> after a three-pointer during the <strong data-start=\"1505\" data-end=\"1545\">Grizzlies\u2019 110-108 win over the Heat<\/strong>, despite having received an official warning from the NBA earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1952\">The gesture came just two days after both <strong data-start=\"1666\" data-end=\"1692\">Morant and Buddy Hield<\/strong> were warned by the league for similar actions in a game between Memphis and Golden State. While the NBA said the gestures were \u201cnot violent in nature,\u201d they were deemed inappropriate. <strong data-start=\"1877\" data-end=\"1913\">Morant was not penalized in-game<\/strong> but the league may take further steps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1954\" data-end=\"2279\">Asked about the criticism post-game, Morant responded bluntly: <em data-start=\"2017\" data-end=\"2083\">\u201cI don\u2019t care no more. I\u2019ve been the villain for two years now.\u201d<\/em> The 25-year-old, suspended twice previously for firearm-related incidents on social media, remains a controversial figure\u2014but also the hero of the night, <strong data-start=\"2238\" data-end=\"2278\">sealing the win with a buzzer-beater<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JA MORANT GAME WINNER BUZZER BEATER \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QjDt3RL7Hg\">pic.twitter.com\/QjDt3RL7Hg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Poland (@NBAPolska23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPolska23\/status\/1908012923923865692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grizzlies star says he \u201cdoesn\u2019t care anymore\u201d about criticism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":436409,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/GnqQb1yWgAA5pc4.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436419"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436419"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436419"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}