Shaq Sends Message To Ja Morant, ‘You’re Not A Rapper, You’re An NBA Player’

Shaquille O’Neal is weighing in on Ja Morant‘s questionable gun-flashing Instagram Live session … informing the Memphis Grizzlies star he needs to be smarter progressing — stating, “You’re not a rapper, you’re an NBA player!”

Shaq communicated his memo to the 2-time All-Star throughout NBA on TNT on Tuesday … stating Morant put himself in his present position with the NBA, Grizzlies, and fans as he selected to press the IG Live button and brandish a gun.

“You don’t go live, nobody knows he has a weapon, [then] we’re not talking about this, but HE did that,” the 51-year-old stated.

“We have to stop putting ourselves in positions where they can take away the things that we worked hard for.”

Shaq highlights the reality that Morant selected to show the world that he remained in a strip club, shirtless, with a weapon … and he must’ve understood there would be consequences for it.

“You got to have enough common sense to know that wasn’t going to go how you wanted it to go,” O’Neal stated. “You’re not a rapper. You’re an NBA player.”

Shaq proposed Morant thinks of his “higher powers” prior to making bad options — and he’s discussing Ja’s moms and dads and 2-year-old child, Kaari.

Speaking of his moms and dads, NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe informed TMZ Sports Morant’s daddy, who he had an altercation with in January, requires to be a dad and not a pal in this scenario.

“It’s okay to be a friend,” Sharpe stated at LAX. “But you gotta be a father, too, and when you see your son doing something wrong, you gotta step to him and say it’s wrong.”