Stephen Jackson: So whether your father was around every day or not, you’re still gonna resemble him in some way. And Ja’s dad? He is not a violent person, not a ghetto person, nothing like that, bro. Has not one ghetto side. He is a respectful dude. He about his money and he's a silent person. Everybody he come around, he smiled and speaking to him. So for Ja to eventually get to Memphis, shout out to Memphis. It ain't got nothing to do with Memphis. It's just he got to Memphis and tried to embrace that culture and became somebody he's really not. Yeah, I said he's he he betrayed and he's been in some situations where he was around people that he didn't normally hang around. You J just wasn't that person. So now he's trying to assume that character of 'I got to be this tough guy. I got to point guns. I got to do all this [ __ ]' You're not NBA YoungBoy. You ain't never shot at nobody. You ain't never been in no [ __ ] like this. Ain't nobody never shot at you. So leave that away from basketball. Yeah, you made some mistakes. Let the mistakes go. But the but the the persona you trying to carry now like you just hard dude or something like that.

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