The video was irrefutable. A purple hue blanketing Ja Morant’s face and shirtless chest, his teeth then baring into a wide grin as he dangled what surely looked like a pistol for the world to witness.
In the live footage Morant streamed from his Instagram account last Friday evening, there’s no gray area, despite the feed’s dim lighting from inside Shotgun Willie’s, a strip club in Glendale, Colorado, following a loss to the Denver Nuggets. It was the latest in a stream of unsettling incidents surrounding the Memphis Grizzlies’ fourth year All-Star.