Ja Morant sees the messages. If he doesn’t, it doesn’t take long for the negative comments to get back to the Memphis Grizzlies star. “I’m real aware,” Morant said after Thursday’s win against the Miami Heat.

The NBA announced penalties stemming from the fight between the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday with five players getting suspended for at least one game. Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart has been suspended two games,

The NBA punished some players for contributing to a "continued escalation of the situation," while one Pistons players received a two-game suspension.

Stewart got two games “based in part on his repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts,” the league said. The NBA handed the one-game bans to Detroit’s Ron Holland II and Marcus Sasser along with Minnesota’s Naz Reid and Donte DiVincenzo.

Morant has been suspended multiple times in the past for incidents involving actual guns. In 2023, he was suspended eight games after flashing a gun on Instagram at a Colorado nightclub. Then, in May of the same year, he was suspended 25 more games after again showing off a gun while in a car during another Instagram video.

Donte DiVincenzo and Naz Reid will each miss one game for the Wolves. Three Detroit players were also suspended.

On Tuesday, the NBA officially announced the punishment for several players who were involved in the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves scrap during Sun

The NBA has suspended five players from the Minnesota Timberwolves and Detroit Pistons after a brawl between the two teams spilled into the stands Sunday night.

Detroit’s Isaiah Stewart has been suspended for two games by the NBA and four other players from the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves drew one-game suspensions for the roles in an on-court altercati