{"id":272360,"date":"2025-04-11T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-ja-morants-new-grenade-celebration-draws-ire-of-charles-barkley-kenny-smith\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:14:35","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-ja-morants-new-grenade-celebration-draws-ire-of-charles-barkley-kenny-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-ja-morants-new-grenade-celebration-draws-ire-of-charles-barkley-kenny-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic Ja Morant\u2019s new grenade celebration draws ire of Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n<p>Ja Morant\u2019s hand grenade celebration didn\u2019t sit well with Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith during the Grizzles-Timberwolves game Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis guard adopted the on-court gesture after he was fined \u00a0$75,000\u00a0by the NBA last Friday for his previous finger guns celebration.<\/p>\n<p>After hitting a 3-pointer in first quarter, Morant celebrated by gesturing a grenade toss and mimicked the process of pulling a pin from an explosive weapon before while looking up at the crowd at FedExForum in Memphis during the 141-125 loss to the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley react to Ja Morant&#8217;s hand grenade celebration.&#8221;He has a history that maybe he should leave the celebrations where people might die alone.&#8221;&#8221;I know one person&#8217;s happy right now. Taylor Jenkins ain&#8217;t got to deal with this crap.&#8221; pic.twitter.com\/5XBlU1YNtl\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 11, 2025<\/p>\n<p>While discussing the game during TNT\u2019s \u201cInside the NBA\u201d halftime show, Barkley seemed disgusted while  Smith sent a message to 25-year-old Morant. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a history that maybe he shouldn\u2019t be doing \u2026 leave the celebrations where people might die alone,\u201d Smith said, referring to Morant being suspended twice for brandishing firearms in social media videos.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley brought up former Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins, who was shockingly fired last month, just nine games before the playoffs were set to begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know one person\u2019s happy right now \u2026 Taylor Jenkins ain\u2019t got to deal with this crap,\u201d Barkley said.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins, who signed a multi-year extension with Memphis in 2022, had been with the team since 2019 and was the Grizzlies\u2019 winningest coach. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows what he\u2019s doing, because y\u2019all gonna keep talking about it,\u201d Shaquille O\u2019Neal added. \u201cPull that pin.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Morant, who is Memphis\u2019 leading scorer,\u00a0covered his ears after pretending to toss it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s my celebration now until somebody else has a problem with it, and I\u2019ll find another one,\u201d Morant said after Thursday\u2019s shootaround.<\/p>\n<p>Morant debuted his grenade celebration during the Grizzles\u2019 124-100 win over the Hornets on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The two-time All-Star made headlines after he mimicked an imaginary gun after making 3-pointers during contests against the Heat and Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Morant was fined for repeating the gesture after he received a warning from the league, which called it \u201cinappropriate\u201d and \u201ca gesture that could be interpreted in a negative light.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Morant isn\u2019t the only NBA player that used finger gun celebrations, though.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Morant was suspended twice for two separate incidents with actual guns. <\/p>\n<p>The first penalty was an eight-game ban for appearing in a live stream video in which he displayed a firearm while in intoxicated at a Denver-area nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>The second was a 25-game ban after Morant posed with a firearm in a car during another live stream video. <\/p>\n<p>A Western Conference showdown between the No. 7 Grizzlies (47-33) and the No. 4 Nuggets (48-32), who fired their head coach Michael Malone this week, is taking place Friday in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams are fighting for playoffs positions, with six teams having between 31-33 losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Ja Morant\u2019s hand grenade celebration didn\u2019t sit well with Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith during the Grizzles-Timberwolves game Thursday. The Memphis guard adopted the on-court gesture after he was fined \u00a0$75,000\u00a0by the NBA last Friday for his previous finger guns celebration. 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