Recently, Ja Morant, the star of the Memphis Grizzlies, talked about his recovery from a shoulder injury during this period and his plans for the next 2024-25 season in an interview on the show.
"I'm really completely ready and now I'm just developing stamina. So if I had to pick a number, I'd say probably 75%, and I feel like that would still scare the person in front of me. ”
Ja Morant once again showed his ability to play with his mouth, saying that he only needs to regain 75% of his peak strength to be enough to scare his opponents. Obviously, Ja Morant is still the same Ja Morant as before.
Ja Morant, the second-overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, played in 257 games in five seasons in the NBA. In the 2023-24 season, due to suspensions and injury issues, he only played 9 games, averaging 25 points, 5 rebounds, and 8 assists per game.
In the 2022-23 season, he played the best performance of his career, averaging 26 points, five rebounds and eight assists per game. However, because of some off-court personal life and other style issues, he was warned and banned by the league.
In the live gun show of the strip club, Ja Morant, who was only 24 years old, missed out on tens of millions of dollars. However, he did not learn his lesson and once again showed off his gun while playing with his friends in the car.
Ironically, Ja Morant's agent quibbled that it was a toy gun, leaving the NBA with a 25-game ban on the NBA's charter. The ban in the 2022-23 season and the ban in the 2023-24 season made the outside world very disappointed with a potential star like Ja Morant.
As a result, after his comeback, he only played 9 games, and he was directly reimbursed for the season due to a shoulder injury. In the 2024-25 season, Ja Morant will return from a thorough recovery, and it is difficult to say whether he can stage the return of the king and lead the Grizzlies to become a strong team in the West again.
However, Ja Morant seems to have forgotten that the Grizzlies are one of the worst teams in the league in the 2023-24 season. If they want to rise to the top of the West in 2024-25, they will face a number of great competitors.
Many core players suffered from injuries last season, and the outside world is not optimistic about the Grizzlies' core players, who can continue to stay healthy in the new season, and may also suffer from injuries again. After all, in these years, as long as a player has a little injury, he will make a big splash and directly miss the game to recuperate.
In fact, everyone is curious about whether Ja Morant can use only 75% of his strength to make opponents fearful after entering the 2024-25 season. If it can't, it will be another slap in the face to Ja Morant.