The NBA, eager to create new faces that are recognizable as megastars by the general public, has in its possession one that does not stop bringing smiles every game that passes. He begins to resonate his name, Ja Morant, and this product of Murray State University begins to be seen as a serious candidate to be whatever he wants.. The same thing makes you dizzy with the ball that violently knocks it over the hoop, there is little left to discover about how this 22-year-old boy is transforming the world from Memphis.
On his team, he just broke the franchise points record by being the only player (neither Conley, nor Gay, nor the Gasol brothers, none had gone that far) to reach 52 points in a single matchbut what gives the record more dimension is that it makes only two days he had left his cap at 46 against the Bulls. The account is easy 98 points in what lasts a weekend, a scoundrel typical of a boy without complexes, grown up, confident, who comes to break all the established schemes. Those who in their day made him reach the League being the shadow of Zion Williamson, now disappeared, too. At the All-Star break he left with a match of 44 + 11 and it is known that he knew little: overall for the season he averages 27.1 points, in addition to 6.7 assists and 5.9 rebounds. Those numbers in a young team that grows and grows and this course has 43 wins out of 63 possible can be described as barbaric, knowing that it seems that this player is far from reaching his ceiling.
Being MVP is still an open battle for him, with the role of the candidacy burning in his hands, although he wants to limit this intense individual battle to two or three guys. Everything comes out to Morant. From his insulting confidence, he has been saying for months that he is one of the five best point guards in the League and insists on giving consistency to the argument with days like this. A symptom that something is changing at a collective level is also that this victory puts them 19 above the Spurs, the team that has dominated the division that both share with an iron fist for more than two decades.