Commissioner Adam Silver decided to let the only drama in the Association be on the NBA Finals for now as he put the decision and findings on Ja Morant’s gun showing incident on hold until the league crowns a new world champion.
“We’ve uncovered a fair amount of additional information. We probably could have brought it to a head now, but we’ve made the decision that it would be unfair to these players and these teams to announce that decision in the middle of this [NBA Finals] series,” Silver said.
“I don’t think we yet know what it will take to change his behavior.”
This is not the first time it happened, as Morant got suspended in the latter stage of the regular season due to the same reason, showing a gun on his Instagram live.
“Waving them around, displaying them in a certain context, is not consistent with gun safety and is not the proper message that an NBA player, particularly one at Ja’s level, should be sending to the tens of millions of followers he has — and particularly when it’s an incident once again, where it’s been streamed live on social media. So yes, I think given the similarity of this incident to the first one, I was alarmed, I was disheartened.”
