(12 Dec 2023)
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Memphis, Tennessee - 11 December 2023
1. Medium of Ja Morant outside courtroom
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Adelman, Joshua Holloway's attorney:
"Your position in this case is that that when Joshua threw you the ball on July 26 of 2022 he was using it as a weapon against you?
Ja Morant: "Yes."
Rebecca Adelman: "Okay. A lethal weapon?"
Morant: "It hurt."
Adelman: "Okay."
Morant: "It can cause damage."
Adelman: "Okay"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ja Morant, NBA player:
"Basically it rolled up my foot and I kicked it up. Caught it. You ready?"
Rebecca Adelman, Joshua Holloway's attorney: "Yeah. I'm ready. So you don't bounce it. You chest pass it."
Morant: "Yeah."
Adelman: "Ok. Alright."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Adelman, Joshua Holloway's attorney:
"You've never apologized to Joshua?"
Morant: "No."
Adelman: "If he were here right now, you wouldn't.... you'd apologize to him, wouldn't you?"
Morant: "Probably not. I was protecting myself."
Adelman: "Today?"
Morant: "No. On that date."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Adelman, Joshua Holloway's attorney:
"So his hands are down. He shoulder bumps you. His hands are down."
Ja Morant, NBA player: "And going back to pulling up his pants again."
Adelman: "He goes here."
Morant: "Fists balled up."
Adelman: "And then you?"
Morant: "Punched him."
Adelman: "Punch me."
Morant: "Nah."
Adelman: "Well show me you punched him."
Morant: "Nah."
Adelman: "No, you need to show me how you punched him."
Adelman: "So you didn't come in with any force on him?"
Morant: "No. No."
Adelman: "You just went like this and punched him?"
Morant: "I just punched him."
6. Wide of Ja Morant leaving the courtroom.
STORYLINE:
NBA star Ja Morant testified in court Monday that a teenager hit him in the face with a one-handed basketball pass at close range during a pickup game last year and that the Memphis Grizzlies guard punched the teen once in the face.
Morant said on the stand that the teen bumped him in the chest, balled his fists and got into a fighting stance. The lawsuit was filed by Joshua Holloway, who was 17 when the brief fight erupted at a basketball game on a court located at the Memphis-area home of the NBA All-Star's parents on July 26, 2022.
Holloway, now 18, accuses Morant and his close friend Davonte Pack of assault, reckless endangerment, abuse or neglect, and infliction of emotional distress. Morant, 24, has said that he and Pack each punched Holloway once, and that Pack's blow sent Holloway to the ground.
Morant claims he was acting in self-defense after Holloway threw the ball at him and hit him in the chin during a check-ball situation. "I was protecting myself," he said in court.
During Morant's testimony, he reenacted the altercation with both his lawyer, Keenan Carter, and Holloway's lawyer, Rebecca Adelman. Both lawyers used basketballs they brought to the courtroom.
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