Ja Morant on the Edge
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, we speak to Daily Memphian columnist Chris Herrington about the personal troubles of Memphis Grizzlies point guard and budding icon Ja Morant. We talk about the Grizzlies, the city of Memphis, and what’s next for the superstar point guard.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we are speaking about Jahn |
| 0:16.4 | and what is happening with the Memphis Grizzlies right now. J John Morant has gotten in a lot of trouble off the court. |
| 0:24.3 | He's taken a leave from the NBA. |
| 0:26.2 | He's one of the most important players in the league. |
| 0:28.6 | And we have the perfect person to break down what this story is all about. |
| 0:32.7 | He is a columnist, writer, and editor at the Daily Memphian. |
| 0:37.2 | His name is Chris Harrington. Let's go to him |
| 0:39.9 | right now. Chris Harrington, thanks so much for joining us on the pod. It is a pleasure. Dave's |
| 0:47.9 | iron. I know. Chris Harrington. Are you kidding me? So for my Nation magazine listeners, who is John Morant? |
| 0:57.8 | And what has he meant to the city of Memphis? |
| 1:01.4 | John Morant is the most spectacular, arguably the most spectacular young player in the |
| 1:08.1 | National Basketball Association. |
| 1:10.4 | He is a point guard who has the |
| 1:12.8 | ferocity of a alan iverson russell westbrook derrick rose type and also has like the |
| 1:20.1 | pure point guard jeans of a chris paul type he's a pretty special talent um he made all nba |
| 1:26.2 | last year the age of 22 and signed a max contract this |
| 1:31.3 | past summer. He is the biggest star the Memphis Grizzlies franchise has ever had. And in some |
| 1:37.5 | ways, maybe the most charismatic and magnetic star the city of Memphis has had since Al Green, |
| 1:43.5 | if not Elvis Presley. And so he's a pretty big deal for the Memphis Grizzlies and for the city of Memphis has had since Al Green, if not Elvis Presley. And so he's a pretty |
| 1:45.3 | big deal for the Memphis Grizzlies and for the city of Memphis. Amazing. So you know hoops, Chris. |
| 1:52.3 | You mentioned a couple of comps just now, but coming from like say the period of the 80s, the 90s, who does Jom Arant remind you of? |
| 2:04.0 | What comps can you give? |
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