Ja Morant is one of the new faces of the NBA. At 22 years old, he Grizzlies point guard He has become one of the great stars of the competition and everything he does has extraordinary significance. And even more so with performances like the one she had before the Spursreaching the 52 points and leaving a couple of plays to remember: a monstrous mate against Jakob Poeltl and one basket on the buzzer with which he consumed an alley-oop from track to track with four tenths left.
That last action went around the world and, according to NBA figures, it is already the most viewed video in the history of the League account on Instagram. According to reports, Morant’s impossible basket post had 42.1 million viewsreaching more than 80 million videos with plays of the point guard in that game against the Spurs.
Posts with shares of Morant accumulate 325 million viewswhich is the third most of any player in the NBA, behind only Stephen Curry and LeBron James, icons of the competition for years and who are active in media teams. The figures of the Grizzlies player are extraordinary for a youngster in his third season in the League, who has recently been All Star for the first time and that it is in a franchise like Memphiswhich has the smallest market in the NBA.
Morant’s social media triumph would not exist without his great performances on the track. Average 27.6 points, 6.6 assists and 5.9 rebounds per match and his team marches in an amazing third position in the Western Conference with a balance of 43-20 breathing on the Warriorsseconds.
