Ja Morant’s self-admitted “trolling” of Brooklyn Nets head coach Jordi Fernández made the headlines on Friday night.
With about seven seconds to go in the first half, Ja Morant brings the ball up. He sharply changes to his right hand to try to beat Jalen Wilson, then decelerates with a behind-the-back to his left. Having also solved Dorian Finney-Smith's attempt at a dig-down with that move, and with Wilson now way off-balance, the Memphis Grizzlies’ all-star guard sets his right foot and rises into the jumper.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” he says, admiring the difficulty of his own move but also making sure to let the Brooklyn coach, bench and staff know. Fernández shoots back with a dagger. "Other than that, I will never speak to other players, and I don’t want other players to speak to me. If they want to be nice, obviously, it’s part of the game. If not, I don’t want any interaction. I think it’s disrespectful. It’s not part of the game. And that’s what we are projecting to everybody else, especially the little ones, is play with respect respect for the game, whether you are a superstar or whoever you are.
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