Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant has risked the wrath of the NBA again, using his gun finger celebration just hours after the league launched an investigation.

Morant sealed a game-winning jumper at the buzzer to help his team beat the Miami Heat on Thursday, but made headlines for all the wrong reasons once again.

Hours before the game, it was announced that the 25-year-old had avoided punishment for Tuesday’s gun finger celebration, but he showed little remorse by once again bringing it out on court.

Morant has twice been suspended for brandishing actual firearms, and was warned over his conduct by league officials earlier this week.

ESPN’s Shams Charania reported that Morant had received a warning from the NBA earlier on Thursday, after their investigation determined the celebration was ‘not intended to be violent in nature, but inappropriate and should refrain.’

Morant seemingly had no plans to ‘refrain’ though, once again using it before speaking to reporters after the game about being a ‘villain’. 

Ja Morant flashed his gun celebration once again during the Grizzlies’ latest game

Morant is the team’s superstar but has once again risked punishment from the NBA

‘I feel like I’ve been the villain for the last two years now,’ Morant said in the locker room. ‘Not even just to this crowd. Every little thing, if somebody can say something negative about me, it’s going to be out there. So, yeah. I don’t care no more.’

It remains unclear whether the Grizzlies superstar will face a new investigation for his latest use of the celebration. 

Morant has previously served two suspensions totaling 33 games for gunplay, including one incident in which he brandished a pistol at a strip club.

The guard also mimed pointing a gun at Anthony Davis earlier this season.

On March 3, 2023, Morant flashed a gun on an Instagram Live video in SH๏τgun Willie’s, a strip club in Glendale, Colorado, following a loss to the Denver Nuggets.

Morant was suspended after flashing a firearm on an Instagram Live in March 2023

The move sparked severe backlash, with the NBA handing down an eight-game suspension to Morant, who checked himself into a private counseling facility in Colorado.

Just ten weeks later, however, Morant was caught in yet another gun-flashing incident. 

This time, Morant was captured waving a firearm in a car on friend Davonte Pack’s Instagram Live.

The league took its time deliberating its punishment in that instance, before Adam Silver landed on a 25-game suspension.