Raja Bell

Um, and yeah,

When John Morant is the face of something, now, I can't say for sure that this is anything that was talked about in the Memphis offices or, for that matter, with me in the Utah offices.

But what they did to me was went about, after I said I'll stay and I did not want to be traded, they went about making my life as miserable as possible to get the worst version out of me.

So when you do that to me, then the fans are like, well, he's an asshole.

And so it becomes a me problem less than a we problem.

And as it relates to Ja Morant, the organization would catch all kind of hell if a good teammate and a good player, Ja Morant,

is just shipped away.

So if you make his life a living hell and he starts to act like an asshole, that becomes a lot more palatable for a fan base to be like, hey man, get him up out of here.

And I can't guarantee that that's what happened.

But to answer your question, it's not always as simple as when should it be done.

They knew it and probably should have done it as soon as you had those conversations about, yo, I don't like this.

I don't like this coach.

You clearly see he don't like me.

Our styles don't mix.

You've chosen to bring him in here.

Once you do that,

and you've got a month sample size denoted, those two don't mix.

I mean, you know, but how you execute that is sometimes a bigger, you know, more difficult question and how palatable it becomes for like your fans and how you can, you know, control the narrative of what's going on to some degree.

Yeah.

I mean, look, I was a little different story because I was older, but you're absolutely right.