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About 6 minutes into Promiseland, a new film documenting the rise of Grizzlies star Ja Morant, the camera takes us into his childhood bedroom, its walls decked with NBA iconography. It stops briefly on the space over his door frame, where a quote from LeBron James has been painted: “You can’t be afraid to fail.