The argument that the NBA lacks the right to discipline Ja Morant for flashing a firearm in an Instagram Live video due to the Second Amendment and the fact Morant broke no law is so ridiculous that those making it must be acting with purposeful duplicity.
“Those guys are just freaking idiots,” Charles Barkley said Wednesday on TNT of the Morant defenders in the media. “I only say 'freaking' because you guys won’t let me say what I want to say.”To recap, theafter he recently appeared in a social media video waving a firearm. This came just over two months after the Memphis star was suspended eight games for previously being filmed with a gun in a Denver strip club.
The question is: Should it do these things? Well, the NBA legally negotiated the right to make that decision. The NBA does not want to be associated with gun culture. Players are the face of the league, frontmen for the entire multibillion dollar enterprise. Morant is one of the most prominent of them, an electric athlete who draws in television viewers and ticket holders every time he takes the court.
This is no different than many professions. Some require uniforms and others don’t. Some make employees follow scripts and protocols, some don’t. “Man, when you’re making $100 million a year to play sports, your life changes,” Barkley said. “There are certain rules and regulations you have to live by, plain and simple. You can’t do stupid stuff. That’s the trade-off. Now, if you want to do all that stuff and give the money back, more power to you.”Some have pointed out that members of Congress and other elected officials regularly pose with firearms, even with their children.
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