Overview

• Prosecutors have dismissed an assault charge against Davonte Pack, a close friend of Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant, stemming from a fight during a pickup basketball game at Morant's home last year.
• Pack, who Morant refers to as 'my brother,' was charged a year after the July 2022 altercation in which a teenager, Joshua Holloway, alleges that Morant and Pack punched him during a game.
• Morant's lawyers argue that he was acting in self-defense after Holloway threw a basketball at Morant and hit him in the chin.
• No criminal charges have been filed against Morant, who also filed a countersuit accusing Holloway of slander, battery and assault.
• The NBA suspended Morant for the first 25 games this season after a second video of him flashing a handgun was posted online, following an eight-game suspension in March for a similar incident.