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In an interview with The Pivot podcast, the Brooklyn Nets wing Mikal Bridges talked about how he was able to avoid the gun culture that has derailed the Memphis Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant‘s career.

“My mom don’t play none of that,” Bridges said. “If I bring somebody around my mom, she would be, ‘Nah.’ That’s just how it is. Like people are scared of my mom like she don’t play, know that, and as I got older now it’s funny because I feel like I’ll tell her all the time, ‘I’m really becoming you,’ ’cause she’s human resources, like she has to fire people all the time. She has to be that boss lady.”