Shannon Sharpe calls Lakers-Grizzlies incident ‘one of the worst moments of my life’
"I blacked out. I honestly did."
"I blacked out. I honestly did."
"We're just trying to ask you to work within the parameters of your employment in the same way every other person on the planet is expected to do."
"What's going on? Nobody asked him. Were you drinking? Did you have your full faculties in order?"
"Which NBA twitter account asked Ja Morant this question."
"I got nothing back"
"Are we the only sane people here?”
"When someone puts on a jersey, they’re no longer a human being"
"I think this was a cry out."
"We have some idiots, some fools, some jackasses on television that really just piss me off."
"Why are we trying to lay down the hammer on a 23-year-old who didn’t break a law?"
"I don’t think the issues they had were necessarily the same, but Jalen saw himself in this young man."
"It may be stupid, but I don’t know what he’s done to be suspended."
"This whole fake gangster theme that I thought we were past as a culture some years ago, I guess he's not past it, he and his. And it's just sad. It's sad."
"It’s not the best look to quote that rap lyric just as you’re coming back from dangling a gun."
"Especially with the media being attracted to just keeping up with what we’re doing, or what’s the next kind of grab or story."
"I do think there are dangers sometimes in having the athletes doing the journalism even though the athletes are the access point."
"There better be a real turn in behavior right now."
"I don’t want white America to think for one second that this is an example that you’re gonna use to shine a light on the collective problem on the Black community."
"Does that mean he wants to associate with the Crips? Or he got initiated by the Crips? Or he has a dream of being a Crip?"
Not something you see every day.
"We made a mistake."
"It was something that'd been marinating in my brain for the last couple of years."
"You're literally acting like Elvis Presley deserves to be more recognized than Ja Morant."
Morant is impossible not to root for while watching this Crackle docuseries.