Before he posed with a gun at a Denver-area strip club, Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant was in line for a pay boost—which will be a lot smaller if he doesn’t make an All-NBA Team this year
In the fractured age of internet-era sports fandom, there is no single indicator of superstar status.
But by last summer, Ja Morant—the then-22-year-old point guard for the Memphis Grizzlies, gifted with a probing dribble and jet-fueled vertical leap—had unmistakably achieved it. One piece of proof was that even his missed attempts at slam dunks becameAnother was the five-year contract extension he signed in July that, if he met certain thresholds before it kicked in during the 2023 offseason, would earn him nearly a quarter-billion dollars.
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