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The Grizzlies already told you what Ja Morant Is worth.
Any team serious about winning doesn't think twice about Ja Morant. It thinks once, then hangs up.
Here's the number that ends the debate: 79 games out of a possible 246 over the last three years. Last season he suited up 20 times. You can't build a contender around a guard you have to hope shows up.
And the league knows it. The Wolves passed. The Pelicans passed. The Kings passed. Miami only circled him as a backup plan in case they whiffed on Giannis. That's not a soft market, that's a consensus.
Memphis told you the rest. You don't trade Jaren Jackson Jr. and draft a replacement at No. 3 if the guy you're keeping is a franchise centerpiece. They tore down a core that made real playoff noise because they decided the centerpiece wasn't one. The teardown is the scouting report.
Now the part that stings. Derrick Rose, Brandon Roy, Greg Oden, those were tragedies. Their bodies took it from them and nobody got a vote. You watch that tape and you ache for what the league lost.
Ja's different. The talent never left. The availability did, suspension and all. That generation of stars got robbed. This one keeps interrupting himself, and patterns are exactly what front offices price in.
So the trade value cratering isn't a surprise. It's the market doing math the timeline refuses to do. He's owed $87 million over two years to be a coin flip on availability and a question mark on conduct. That's not an asset. That's a liability with a highlight reel.
Only place I'm trading for Ja Morant is 2K. In real life, you let someone else find out.
@DarthBa99009357@PlayersChoice_ KD is a choke artist who can’t win unless he joins a 73-9 team and leaves literally every team worse than when he joined
@FDSportsbook After the run they had at the end of last season I would’ve given it another shot.
But don’t blame them. He’s proven he’s not a serious player.
@amicsta Hypothetically it checks. He’s a great playmaker who takes pressure off ant and can make others better.
To your point, he’s gotta get serious about winning and cut the bs.
@SportsWithJay0 That’s a good way to frame it. If he went to Cleveland he’d be just as miserable, if not worse competing for touches against harden and Mitchell.