Lakers News: Dillon Brooks, Ja Morant Spurn Media After Falling 3-1 To LA

Great leadership there, guys.

In 2024, if you thumb through your latest edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms to the phrase "sore loser," there's a pretty good chance that Dillon Brooks and/or Ja Morant's picture will be featured right above that phrase.

That's because, for the second straight game (and his Memphis Grizzlies' second straight loss on the road to your Los Angeles Lakers), Brooks refused to speak to gathered media postgame, per Tim MacMahon of ESPN. "I'm out," he offered simply.

MacMahon adds that Morant, meanwhile, also opted to not make himself available to the press in the light of the Grizzlies' 117-111 Game 4 overtime loss to Los Angeles, which put the Lakers up 3-1 and most likely sealed Memphis' fate as the rare No. 2 seed that would get ousted in the first round of the playoffs.

Some leadership there, fellas.

After being incredibly vocal to the press about James through the first two contests of the series, it's pretty hilarious that, now that Brooks appears to be on the cusp of an upset series loss, he's suddenly clammed up, along with Morant.

Brooks and Morant, as two of the team's most vocal starters, are expected to be its leaders. After a season that saw the Grizzlies fall from their prior status as athletic, beloved small-market upstarts to becoming the mean-spirited (and, in Morant's case, probably worse) villains of the league, you'd think the team would at least be gracious in its media comments, hoping against hope to rally players with encouraging language.

But I guess that would just require too much grace and class for these deeply unlikable young stars. Good riddance.

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