FOX Sports 1 television personality Skip Bayless is hoping against hope that Ja Morant doesn’t turn out to be “one of those people you can’t save.”
Speaking on his self-titled show over the weekend, Bayless claimed that the Memphis Grizzlies guard wasn’t receptive to Lil Wayne’s efforts to help the troubled NBA star.
“I reached out to Ja. ‘Would you sit with Lil Wayne? Would you talk with Lil Wayne?’ Wayne would fly to him. He would fly to Memphis in a heartbeat tonight. Wayne would private plane it and go right to Memphis if he thought he could save a career and a soul. I got nothing back from Ja. Didn’t expect anything back,” Bayless said.
.@RealSkipBayless: “I hope Ja Morant doesn’t turn out to be one of those people you just can’t save.” pic.twitter.com/qs2dn8Lgzz
— The Skip Bayless Show (@SkipBaylessShow) June 9, 2023
Wayne and Bayless have maintained a very close friendship over the years. And the multi-platinum selling rapper has his own history with guns, shooting himself in the chest at the age of 12 and having multiple run-ins with the law.
Wayne even sent out a warning to Ja after seeing his name turn up in headlines:
Don’t fall into that trap these people doing on TV saying, ‘Because he ain’t no thug! He ain’t in the streets! He ain’t about that! You don’t want that!’ You all know that boy? Because I don’t. I know him from dunking and jumping, and I only started paying attention to him his last year of college. He come from a town of 3,000 people. I’m like, what? What y’all expect? You all gave him $200 million. I just said a town of 3,000 people. You expect him to be responsible? Now we tripping then. Now we tripping. That’s magic. Because I can tell you I come from a real well-raised beautiful mother. My mama bust her ass to make sure everything around me was nice, and I still was a knucklehead. I shot myself, you know what I mean?
The NBA world is awaiting Adam Silver’s decision on potential punishment for Morant, with some not ruling out a full-season suspension.
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