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“And at guard … in his rookie season … from Murray State University … Ja Morant!”
Sporting his full Memphis Grizzlies getup, the NBA’s second overall draft pick stormed out of his living room, swatted some imaginary high fives to imaginary teammates and hopped around to energize an imaginary crowd. The makeshift public address announcer stands just off-camera, narrating Morant’s first video on TikTok.
Morant, like so many professional athletes, is just making the best of a bad situation.

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