NBA Top pick “Ja Morant” explains why He choose Murray State over a home state school

SUMTER :— If “Ja Morant” was that Nice, how did he not play at South Carolina or Clemson?

Same reason he didn’t play at North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State or any other college basketball powerhouse..

Nobody knew who he was..

until Not he showed up on Murray State highlight films early this season and was posterizing dudes with made-for-YouTube slam dunks.

“Ja Morant Day in Sumter”

As usual,
when a South Carolina native becomes a basketball star at a school not named South Carolina or Clemson, curiosity becomes wonder, which becomes blame, which becomes attacks.

Particularly in the Gamecocks’ case, when they have missed the postseason the past two years after
reaching the 2017 Final Four,
they incredulously ask how a talent like Morant one hour from Colonial Life Arena was “discovered” nearly 10 hours away in Murray, Ky.

As usual,
the facts are lost in a sea of angerr.

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The Gamecocks were the only Power-5 conference school to offer Morant. Frank Martin wasn’t the first coach to offer him a scholarship, but he offered a month after Murray did, when he saw enough of Morant that he would be a great player.

2016-2017  Sumter’s Finest winner and now Murray State Basketball PG
opens up his home for an exclusive interview during his fall break from college.