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Ja Morant has had a turbulent start to the season. With his recent suspension from the Memphis Grizzlies for “conduct detrimental to the team,” along with his dicey comments after multiple games, trade chatter has quickly surrounded the star point guard. Some fans have argued for a potential trade to the Miami Heat, a setting that might reignite the guard’s fire, but not everyone is buying it, including veteran insider Kevin O’Connor. O’Connor, on his podcast, shut down the rumor, arguing that Morant and Miami would conflict, not based on personality or culture, but offensive philosophy. “He didn’t like playing last year in the Taylor Jenkins offense with Noah LaRoche,” O’Connor said, pointing to how LaRoche was brought into Memphis last year to balance out their offense instead of overreliance on their stars. ADVERTISEMENT He added, “Not a lot of pick and roll, not a lot of screening, a lot of off-ball motion. He hated that… So you’re telling me he’s going to go to Miami, where they hired Noah LaRoche as a consultant running a very similar offense? I don’t think Miami makes a lot of sense.”
