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Topic subjectRE: 'legally' is kind of a hard word to pin down in this case.
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2793950, RE: 'legally' is kind of a hard word to pin down in this case.
Posted by ThaTruth, Fri Jun-16-23 05:44 PM
>like waving the gun in his last video was not illegal. I get
>that.
>However, Ja is turning into a habitual line stepper, so Silver
>put his foot down. If we were to base his suspension on this
>latest incident, I don't think there would have been a
>suspension at all... HOWEVER, Ja had a list of priors the
>included either video evidence of some illegal shit, or some
>decent circumstantial evidence of some other illegal shit.
>
>Off the top:
>- Drinking and waving a fire arm in a strip club (pretty sure
>that's illegal even in VIP)
>-Scrapping w/a mall employee over some drama w/your mom (we
>don't really know the specifics, but potential illegalities
>there)
>-Potential assault on someone who you were hooping with at
>your house, where a gun was involved. (again, not 100% sure
>there was a crime here)
>- Your friends or your people pointing a laser at an opposing
>teams van. No evidence that it was a gun, but seemed like the
>message they were sending
>
>I'm no CBA expert, so it's whatevs to me tbh. I want Ja to get
>back to hooping. 25 games for this incident given his priors
>seems kinda fair, especially because he made Silver look like
>a pussy after that last incident.
>
>All I really know is Ja is lucky he doesn't play in the David
>Stern era. Stern would have murdered his dogs, set one of his
>cars on fire, and then told Ja he needed to step away to play
>minor league baseball and 'find his passion' for 6 months.
>Silver seems to be willing to meet him halfway, at least.
>

There was only potential legal trouble in the first incident in Denver where the gun laws are different and there were questions about whether or not he took the gun on the team plain.

All that other stuff is speculative and unproven this no charges filed.

Stern couldn’t have done crap either.