“I ride with Shannon Sharpe 365 days — 366 on a leap year”: LeBron James Has FS1 Analyst’s Back Amidst Ja Morant & Dillon Brooks’ “Pedestrian” Remark

Akash Murty | 21/01/2023
"I ride with Shannon Sharpe 365 days — 366 on a leap year": LeBron James Has FS1 Analyst's Back Amidst Ja Morant & Dillon Brooks' “Pedestrian” Remark

Slowly and steadily, the Memphis Grizzlies are earning themselves the title of the most hated team in the NBA. After LeBron James led Miami Heat, there’s been not one team that received as much heat from the fans as Ja Morant and Co have in the past year, so maybe the Atlanta Hawks do when they visit New York, but that’s just one city.

They have been creating a lot of noise since finishing as the #2 seed in the NBA last year, crossing the lines in some Warriors games even in this season.

On Friday night, they crossed all boundaries and didn’t just disrespect one but two legends in American sports history. Firstly, LeBron James and his Lakers who surprisingly won the game against them dramatically, and also NFL legend Shannon Sharpe who sat beside the court supporting the Purple and Gold.

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LeBron James has Shannon Sharpe’s back 365 days, 366 on leap years

All of it happened at the end of the second quarter when Sharpe was telling Dillion Brooks he was too small for LeBron. It almost looked like either Steven Adams or Ja’s dad Tee Morant would get into it with the Fox Sports 1 analyst who was having an exchange with Brooks after the game.

Brooks, who is already making his agenda to take over the league’s next bad boy apparent these days, took it to another level when he came out with these statements for James and Sharpe in the post-game interview.

However, The King made it a point as well to keep Sharpe in high regard and said this about him in his presser.

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Shannon Sharpe, whom Dillon Brooks called a “blogger” and “pedestrian” is an NFL HoF

Frankly speaking, none of the Grizzlies haven’t done anything to mock any NBA team, let alone a man who is a 3x Super Bowl champion and a legend of Denver Broncos’ history. But maybe they are just doing it intentionally, to be according to fans.

“Shannon didn’t do anything,” Tee Morant told ESPN about him hugging it out with Sharpe by the third quarter. “Hey, he was doing like we do in South Carolina. We talk our s—. South Carolina, stand up!”

Meanwhile, the junior Morant said he won’t say anything on the subject, and just he wants to “let” Shannon live. Okay, Ja we hear you!

Also read: “Tee Morant Doesn’t Want the Smoke”: NBA Fans react to Ja Morant’s father Shrugging Off Major Scuffle Between Shannon Sharpe and Grizzlies

Post Edited By: Akash Murty
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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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