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Ja Morant’s Crisis: From Superstar to Multiple Steps Down in League’s Valuation

Basketball — 10/14/2023

On the list of the best NBA players, the Grizzlies point guard has not escaped the expected decline after his off-field problems.

Ja Morant's crisis: from superstar to going down many steps in the league's valuation

With the imminent start of the NBA, it is time for the lists: best teams, best transfers, best player pairings… One of the most anticipated is the experts’ list of the best players in the league. Although the Top 10 has not yet been revealed, the players in the ‘lowest’ positions are already known, a ranking that as always has brought controversy and a drop that is above all.

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Ja Morant has once again made negative news, and those in charge of making the list have given him the biggest downgrade in his classification: from ninth place in the 2022-23 season, to a discreet thirty-fifth in the campaign that looms Clearly, experts do not trust what his season will be like after the scandals he was involved in last season.

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Morant isn’t the only great player at a very low position. Precisely after the Grizzlies star, we can find Kyrie Irving, who as always has not held back and has reacted to the fact of being so low in the rankings. Irving has now ended up in Dallas, where he arrived with the start of last season and has not yet shown his full potential when partnering with Luka Doncic.

Since Ja Morant’s 25-game ban was announced, the Players Union stated that it considered it excessive and has tried to have it reduced, something that does not seem likely. Joe Dumars, vice president of the NBA, assured that he does not expect the suspension period to be shortened or extended, but acknowledged that conversations about it are taking place with all those involved.

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“We are in contact with the Players’ Union, with Ja and with his entourage, we are working together on this,” he stated in his statements to Sam Amick and Joe Varden, journalists from The Athletic. “We are collaborating so that he has a comfortable transition upon his return to competition. “This is not a situation that can be commented publicly and in which you can begin to say what is happening behind the scenes, but we are talking.”