The Grizzlies' star point guard, Ja Morant, is accused of punching a 17-year-old during a pickup basketball game that took place last summer, according to a Wednesday report from Molly Hensley-Clancy of The Washington Post. The incident reportedly occurred four days after a security guard at a Memphis mall filed a police report alleging that Morant threatened him and an associate of Morant shoved him, though no arrests were made.
During the pickup game, Morant repeatedly punched the teenager in the head, the boy told police. The incident happened at Morant’s house, and the teenager told police that Morant later went into his home and returned with a gun visible in his waistband.
Morant told police in an interview that he was acting in self-defense after the boy threw a basketball at his head, though he acknowledged, “I swung first.”
