{"id":4802,"date":"2024-11-07T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2024-11-07T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:00:10","slug":"trending-ja-morants-savage-troll-job-after-grizzlies-lakers-takedown-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=4802","title":{"rendered":"TRENDING: Ja Morant&#8217;s savage troll job after Grizzlies&#8217; Lakers takedown goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ja-Morants-savage-troll-job-after-Lakers-takedown-goes-viral.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Grizzlies' Ja Morant laughing, while holding a huge card with an &quot;L&quot; on it with Lakers' LeBron James frustrated beside him\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ja Morant may have exited the Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; 131-114 demolition of the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night early after tweaking his hamstring in the third quarter, but he made his presence felt long after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Morant relished his team&#8217;s win over a Lakers team that he clearly has no soft spot in his heart for, and he made that rather clear following the game.<\/p>\n<p>After LeBron James flexed on Morant after finishing strong against the Grizzlies guard early in the game, with James even hitting Morant with the \u201ctoo small\u201d taunt, the highflying guard\u00a0had the last laugh\u00a0on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"not-prose align-center\">\n<div class=\"min-w-[300px] overflow-x-hidden text-center font-secondary uppercase my-2.5 min-h-[280px] md:min-h-[250px]\">\n<div id=\"content_1\" data-google-query-id=\"CNmvwK3fyYkDFTeG6QUdp0UV4Q\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"not-prose flex w-full flex-col items-center overflow-hidden px-5 h-[300px]\">\n<div class=\"react-tweet-theme tweet-container_root__0rJLq\">\n<article class=\"tweet-container_article__0ERPK\">\n<div class=\"quoted-tweet-container_root__92393\">\n<article class=\"quoted-tweet-container_article__FoJQN\">\n<div class=\"tweet-media_root__k6gQ2\">\n<div class=\"tweet-media_mediaWrapper__6rfqr\"><a class=\"tweet-media_mediaContainer__rjXGp tweet-media_mediaLink__vFkZL\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1854354490876637345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tweet-media_image__yoPJg\" draggable=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Gbv9bstbkAAVkaI?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"flex h-12 items-center justify-center rounded-md border border-primary-accent px-5 py-3 font-secondary font-semibold text-primary-accent\"><\/button><\/div>\n<p>But beyond getting the last laugh over James and the Lakers, Morant emphasized just how much he dislikes the Lakers and\u00a0why he&#8217;s so pumped up\u00a0to get what is an otherwise comfortable regular-season victory with little stakes attached to it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don&#8217;t like &#8217;em. They knocked me out of the playoffs and then last year we had a game and they came here poppin&#8217; on our home floor when I was in street clothes,\u201d Morant said, referencing the Grizzlies&#8217; 2023 playoff exit as well as their March 27 and April 12, 2024 defeats to the Lakers last season at FedEx Forum, via Matt Infield of Action News 5.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Morant has never been one to back down from a fight, and it&#8217;s clear that he&#8217;s drawing battle lines against James and the Lakers. This matchup would have been more interesting had Anthony Davis been healthy, but the Grizzlies aren&#8217;t about to cower in fear even if Davis were to suit up for their next matchup, which will be coming on November 13 \u2014 this time at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ja Morant and the Grizzlies reignite beef vs. LeBron James and the Lakers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Grizzlies-guard-Ja-Morant-12-reacts-toward-LeBron-James.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in the 2023 NBA playoffs, things got\u00a0heated between the Lakers and the Grizzlies, with Dillon Brooks playing the role of the central villain to LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p>The beef sort of cooled down between the two teams, especially after Brooks signed with the Houston Rockets, but it was apparent in the way that James and the Lakers celebrated their late-season wins over the Grizzlies last season that there is no love lost between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Ja Morant certainly did his part in stoking the flame, talking smack towards James for taunting him yet coming away with a loss on the night.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe did [the too small gesture]. I don&#8217;t back down from nobody. I don&#8217;t care who you are,\u201d Morant said. \u201cYou take out the top dawg, who else do you fear? I don&#8217;t fear nobody anyway, but yeah. I had to get up.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The concern now is that Morant had to exit the game early due to a hamstring injury. But the Grizzlies star isn&#8217;t too worried, as he simply did not return to the game since they already had the win in the bag.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI knew we was winning the game,\u201d Morant added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies now move to 5-4 on the season, and Morant has been excellent to begin the year \u2014 with room to improve to spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ja Morant may have exited the Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; 131-114 demolition of the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night early after tweaking his hamstring in the third quarter,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TRENDING: Ja Morant&#039;s savage troll job after Grizzlies&#039; 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