Shannon Sharpe Had a Heated Confrontation With the Memphis Grizzlies and Ja Morant's Dad
The Memphis Grizzlies played the Los Angeles Lakers on ESPN on Friday night. FS1's Shannon Sharpe was sitting courtisde and found himself involved with the players and Ja Morant's father. According to ESPN things started with Sharpe exchanging words with Dillon Brooks. Then Steven Adams and Ja Morant got involved and eventually, Tee Morant.
ESPN video of Shannon and the Grizz + Tee Morant pic.twitter.com/wSbKc1jLz1
— CJ Fogler AKA Perc70 #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) January 21, 2023
After Sharpe and Brooks were yelling at each other Ja Morant walked towards him telling him "sit yo ass down." That's when Adams stepped in and Morant's father got involved.
Ja was yelling “sit yo ass down” to Shannon before the half? pic.twitter.com/cImqPG4QFu https://t.co/qrDyzvinm0
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) January 21, 2023
Sharpe apparently was escorted to the tunnel where he cooled down, gave a brief statement to ESPN's Dave McMenamin and returned to his seat.
Shannon Sharpe spent halftime in the tunnel with security before returning to his seat for the third quarter. He granted ESPN a brief interview explaining what happened with the Grizzlies on his way to his seat: pic.twitter.com/XZNw6sQhEG
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) January 21, 2023
Here are a couple angles from the stands.
Tempers flare in the front row here at the Crypt — where Shannon Sharpe, Steven Adams and Papa Tee Morant exchange words and have to be kept apart before heading off in opposite directions. pic.twitter.com/EtMiSDY3sv
— Mirjam Swanson (@MirjamSwanson) January 21, 2023
Absolute madness. Shannon Sharpe was talking to Ja Morant, then Steven Adams walked over in front of Ja Morant. Tee Morant and Shannon Sharpe then had words before Sharpe was escalated off the floor. pic.twitter.com/iIpOnxDPiH
— Damichael Cole (@DamichaelC) January 21, 2023
More of the verbal confrontation between Tee Morant & Shannon Sharpe pic.twitter.com/6f3uPRqVQE
— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) January 21, 2023
This is one of the wilder things you will ever seen, but the most surprising part is that one of the co-hosts of Undisputed showed up at a Lakers game and got into it with players and Skip Bayless and LeBron James weren't involved.
UPDATE: Despite Sharpe's quote to ESPN, he at least hugged it out with Tee Morant.
Shannon and Tee made up#SwishoNews pic.twitter.com/lxjdIQs2Dl
— Enrico S. Gatesberg (@TrustSwisho) January 21, 2023
Tee Morant — father of Ja Morant — tells @NBAonTNT / @BleacherReport he and Shannon Sharpe “are good” and has “nothing but love for him.” Said it’s just two guys from the South talking trash and supporting their teams.
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) January 21, 2023