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Ja Morant will miss at least the next four games, the team announced.

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With Ja Morant getting into one controversy after another, the Memphis Grizzlies will continue keeping the player away from the team.

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According to the team's official announcement, the superstar guard will miss at least the next four games.

The Grizzlies guard hosted an Instagram live from a nightclub early Saturday morning where heshowed a gun to thousands of spectators. He was subsequentlysuspended by the team.

He was being investigated by Colorado policeover his incident but the investigation revealed that there wasn't enough evidence for charges to be filed.

After the incident got wider attention, the guard announced that he will be taking time away from basketball.

Morant was involved in multiple stories where a gun was featured. Most recently, a story came out that hepunched a teenager during a basketball gamein his home in Tennessee. After the incident, he allegedly re-emerged from the house with a gun visible in the waistband of his pants and his hand on the weapon.

During the summer, Morant also got involved in averbal altercation with Memphis policein one of the city's malls when he and his friends refused the security guard’s demands to leave the mall parking lot.

The Grizzlies star was recently involved in another incident involving a gun. Morant's long-time friend Devonte Packwas banned from attending Grizzlies home gamesat the FedExForum for a year after he verbally abusedIndiana Pacersplayers during and after the game. Although the Pacers believed a gun was pointed at them after the game, the NBA denied it in their report.

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