Ja Morant is feeling some kind of way about his new teammate.
The Memphis Grizzlies went for size in Wednesday’s NBA Draft, using their No. 9 overall pick on former Purdue center Zach Edey. The move cemented a meteoric rise up the draft boards for the two-time National College Player of the Year Edey, who was once projected as a late second-round pick.
In a post to his Instagram Story, the Grizzlies star Morant had a priceless reaction to the Edey pick. Morant shared the movie clip from “Rush Hour 3” where Chris Tucker’s character comes face-to-face with the Kung-Fu Giant. Take a look.
Ja Morant’s new instagram story pic.twitter.com/ruWi8L9QQI
— BIGMEM12 (@BIGMEM12) June 27, 2024
Edey stands 7-foot-4 while Morant is “only” 6-foot-2. That may not be as big of a height difference as the one of Tucker and Sun Mingming, the 7-foot-9 ex-Chinese basketball player who acted in the film … but it isn’t too far off.
The 2023-24 NCAA scoring leader Edey was drawing strong interest from a different lottery team prior to the draft. But it was ultimately the Grizzlies who pulled the trigger on him, thus giving Morant a very large new pick-and-roll partner.
