Fox News host Will Cain does not believe Ja Morant should be suspended for his latest instance of appearing to flash a gun on IG Live.
Cain, who is hosting Fox News this week in the 8:00 pm slot previously hosted by Tucker Carlson, wondered aloud why the NBA would be infringing upon the Grizzlies star’s second amendment rights.
“Explain to me something. Does Ja Morant not have 2A rights?” Cain asked.
“Can he not do what he wants outside of his work environment if it’s still legal? It may be stupid, but I don’t know what he’s done to be suspended.”
Morant is suspended indefinitely from team activities, and ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski has reported on the possibility of Morant facing a “lengthy” suspension to start the 2023-24 NBA season.
Morant was previously suspended eight games for brandishing a firearm while on IG Live from a Denver-area strip club, immediately following several months in which there were a number of incidents where Morant and his circle were accused of threatening violence.
“This isn’t to endorse his lack of responsibility for handling his gun,” Cain continued on Twitter. “Or his image. But c’mon, suspended?
“Employment has become too big of a mechanism for behavior control. When Kaepernick did what he did the salient point was he did it ON THE JOB, at the workplace. Now employers control too much dumb but legal parts of life unrelated to work. ‘Dumb’ statements? Wrong think?
“And don’t think employment is devoid of politics. I’m not saying there is a bright line or an easily identifiable principle here. It’s tough. As so many times, it’s a judgment call. But I don’t like the instinct of your job controlling your legal but maybe dumb (in someone’s opinion) life.”
Clay Travis, the founder of OutKick, which was acquired by Fox, responded to Cain.
“There’s a really good, smart debate to have on employer restrictions of legal behavior outside of work — but I think the challenge here for Ja is he has several alleged gun incidents in his recent past: alleged crew pulling gun on Pacers team buses, alleged gun to threaten a teenager in pick up game at his house, strip club insta gun video,” Travis tweeted.
“Not crazy to me for Grizz and NBA to be concerned about his behavior with guns. Then to follow it up with this within a couple of months of a big suspension where he claims he understands the team and league find his behavior unacceptable, it’s just really dumb and immature. Even his buddy in this video tried to protect him because he knew how dumb this was.”
Cain was not swayed that Morant deserves a suspension.
“Great response. And I think Ja should be judged and is and has behaved stupidly. Still not sure about suspension,” he responded to Travis. “But I also think employer ‘image’ in controlling legal behavior outside of work has gone way too far.”