Adam Silver Says Should It Matter If Gun Waved By Ja Morant Was A Toy

Adam Silver Doesn’t Think It Matters If Ja Morant Waved A Toy Gun

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he is still doing a lot of thinking about Ja Morant’s claim that he was holding a toy gun in an Instagram Live video.

The Grizzlies star is currently suspended from all team activities after he was seen holding what appeared to be a firearm in a social media live stream on May 13 — less than three months after he brandished a firearm in a separate live stream on March 4 at Shotgun Willie’s strip club in Glendale, Colo.

During a Thursday interview on “The Dan Patrick Show,” Silver questioned if it should even matter whether the gun in the second video was real, as Morant previously served an eight-game suspension for the first incident.

 

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“It’s interesting,” Silver said Thursday, adding that he is aware of reports of Morant’s camp claiming he didn’t have a real gun in the second video.

“It’s something that I’m thinking a lot about because, again, I’m not going to get into specifics about the investigation — but in fact, if you’re live streaming something to the world that looks exactly like a gun and in a frankly reckless manner, should it matter whether or not it’s a real gun?

“The very issue for Ja, certainly in the first incident, was treating a gun as a toy. That’s what we’re talking about and that’s what I think the danger is to society.

“Taking a gun, live streaming it, without getting into gun issues in terms of the propriety of owning guns and the use of guns, I think everyone agrees that gun safety is critically important and that guns aren’t toys.”