Speaker 1: We need to get to Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Moran,
Speaker 1: who was just fined seventy five thousand dollars by the
Speaker 1: league for mimicking a shooting gun with his finger. The
Speaker 1: fine comes a day after the league warned Moran and
Speaker 1: Warriors guard but he healed yesterday morning about the gesture
Speaker 1: following their game Tuesday night, and so Moran did it
Speaker 1: again last night. Here's what he had to say after
Speaker 1: the game when asked about criticisms of his actions. Quote,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of used to it. I was pretty much
Speaker 1: a villain for two years now. Every little thing, if
Speaker 1: somebody can say something negative about me, it's going to
Speaker 1: be out there. So yeah, I don't care no more.
Speaker 1: End quote. So the NBA responded this morning with that
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars. Fine, you got off easy. Let's
Speaker 1: get that out the way first. You got that. You
Speaker 1: got off easy. Number one. Number two, John morand we
Speaker 1: need to stop. Take that footage off the camera and
Speaker 1: put me on the camera. Please gotta stop. Bro. First
Speaker 1: of all, stop with all of this negativity over the
Speaker 1: last two years. When you got into the situation where
Speaker 1: you was caught on Instagram, you know, waving a gun.
Speaker 1: First you got suspended for eight games, and then after
Speaker 1: that you got suspended for twenty five games. Nobody was
Speaker 1: saying anything negative about you prior to those things. In
Speaker 1: the aftermath of all of that, all anybody's been looking
Speaker 1: for is your game. You came back, you got hurt,
Speaker 1: you was out, and that's what transpired. John Moran is fantastic.
Speaker 1: He has superstar potential. We knew he was on his way,
Speaker 1: and then he got derailed because he got suspended and
Speaker 1: then ultimately injured. Nobody's looking to bring you down. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say anybody, because there's always haters and trolls, and
Speaker 1: the level of the society that we live in with
Speaker 1: the negativity, et cetera, it's ridiculous. But the flip side
Speaker 1: to it is that the world is in the palm
Speaker 1: of your hands. It's in your hand, the money that
Speaker 1: you're making, the money you stood to make with endorsement
Speaker 1: deals and all of that stuff. Particularly after Kyrie had
Speaker 1: his troubles and Madison Avenue came in your direction. You
Speaker 1: got derailed because of that, and between the suspensions and
Speaker 1: the endorsement or lack thereof that followed, it was speculated
Speaker 1: that you were cost over forty to fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1: That would leave a whole bunch of people bitter. I
Speaker 1: get that part, but please don't please understand everybody that
Speaker 1: loves basketball should be rooting for you. For the record,
Speaker 1: John Moran is some awful dude. He's not some dude
Speaker 1: looking to start trouble. NOI there's his dad. Dad's a
Speaker 1: little bit conspicuous at the games with the shades on,
Speaker 1: and also he actually happens to be a real fun
Speaker 1: loving guy. Nobody's sitting up there rooting for you to
Speaker 1: fall on your face and field. What we want to
Speaker 1: see is the greatness we've been seeing from you the
Speaker 1: last few games, when you dropped thirty six and the
Speaker 1: loss to step Hurry and Golden State when he dropped
Speaker 1: fifty two on you. You still have thirty six that game,
Speaker 1: when you sat up there and dropped thirty last night
Speaker 1: and hit the game, win a shot, when you talk
Speaker 1: and smack and you backed it up, that's what we
Speaker 1: want to see. That's all we want to see. You
Speaker 1: don't want to get in trouble because you're doing feigning,
Speaker 1: gun signs and all of it. Bro, It's not worth it.
Speaker 1: You are very very important to the league, but you
Speaker 1: don't run the league. It existed before you got here,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be here when you gone. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, I got a number of love for
Speaker 1: John Moran. I wish you nothing but the best. Gotta
Speaker 1: be smart. It's a business. And the reason why the
Speaker 1: NBA can be a bit invasive and a bit stringent
Speaker 1: and a bit meticulous at Toms is because they have
Speaker 1: to answer the advertisers and sponsors who essentially provide revenue
Speaker 1: for the league. That's why the NBA gets an eleven year,
Speaker 1: seventy six billion dollar deal because they acquiesce too and
Speaker 1: appease sponsors and advertisers, and that kind of thing hurts
Speaker 1: their bottom line. It's very simple. It's very simple. Don't
Speaker 1: let something that is small get in the way. We
Speaker 1: know it's small, it's not a big deal, but it's
Speaker 1: a big deal to advertises and sponsors, and as a result,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal to the brand that is the NBA,
Speaker 1: which you play, which unbrell you play under. That's all
Speaker 1: it is. That's all it is. Look at it this way, Joe.
Speaker 1: If you rich boys, they your crew and they cost
Speaker 1: you money because they do something relatively foolish, not necessarily harmful,
Speaker 1: not malicious, but they engage in activity that ain't smart.
Speaker 1: You're gonna tell them to fix it, or they got
Speaker 1: a bounce because you ain't gonna let them hurt your
Speaker 1: bottom line. That's what the NBA is saying to you.
Speaker 1: Just know that and operate accordingly, and your career will
Speaker 1: continue to prosper and you be able to move on
Speaker 1: with your life and do what you do cause you're
Speaker 1: that special bro. That's all