Ja Morant will be away from the Memphis Grizzlies for at least their next two games, the team announced.
It was not immediately clear what Morant meant by "help" or if he planned to be away from the team for longer than the two-game minimum announced by the Grizzlies.
This is at least the second time in the last few weeks that Morant has been the subject of a league investigation. Morant's actions were investigated after a Jan. 29 incident in Memphis that he said led to a friend of his being banned from home games for a year. Morant responded to that incident by tweeting that the reports "paint this negative image on me and my fam.
There is precedent for the NBA when sanctioning a player over conduct involving guns. In January 2010, then-Commissioner David Stern suspended Washington's Gilbert Arenas indefinitely without pay after saying the player's behavior made him "not currently fit to take the court." On the same day the Powerade deal was revealed, The Washington Post published a story, based on police records it obtained, detailing how Morant and some associates "have been accused of threatening and even violent behavior," the newspaper said.
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