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Danny Cunningham: #Cavs announce they’ll be holding their training camp at IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL again this season. Camp begins Sept. 30.
When Marcus Morris was arrested at an airport last month after he allegedly committed fraud, Florida cops not only threw him handcuffs -- they wrapped his ankles in shackles too. The stunning visuals were all captured on new police video, obtained by TMZ Sports.
A former Miami Heat security officer pleaded guilty today in the Southern District of Florida to transporting and transferring stolen goods in interstate commerce. According to the facts admitted at the change of plea hearing, Marcos Tomas Perez, 62, stole hundreds of game-worn jerseys and other valuable memorabilia belonging to the Miami Heat and sold them to online brokers. The items, which included rare jerseys, were worth millions of dollars. Perez, a 25-year retired veteran of the City of Miami Police Department, was employed as a security officer with the Miami Heat from 2016 to 2021 and later worked as an NBA security employee from 2022 to 2025. During his tenure, Perez worked on the game-day security detail at the Kaseya Center, where he had access to a secured equipment room that stored hundreds of game-worn jerseys and other memorabilia set aside for a future Miami Heat museum.
Hassan Whiteside is trading his waterfront estate for a fat paycheck -- cause the former Miami Heat star just listed his Florida mega-mansion for a cool $15.8 million. The contemporary pad sits on nearly 18,000 square feet of gated land with 90 feet of waterfront on Miami Beach's Surprise Lake.
Jaime Jaquez Jr.: Miami is not America
Miami is not America. I was not expecting a whole different country. It feels like everybody and my grandparents, they all spoke Spanish, but I just wasn't expecting going there and Spanish being the first language. I was like, wait, I thought this was Florida but when I got there, everybody was speaking Spanish, so not that I was shocked, but I guess I was, because I just wasn't expecting everybody there to just be Latin and speaking Spanish as their first language.
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Marcus Morris denied bond
Marcus Morris Sr. was denied bond during a hearing Tuesday morning in Florida’s Broward County two days after the former NBA player was arrested at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on felony fraud charges out of Nevada. The judge denied Morris’ motion to set bond, saying that she did not have the jurisdiction to make such a ruling for an out-of-state case.
Marcus Morris addresses his fraud allegations in an Instagram post
Marcus Morris took to his Instagram page on Wednesday morning to share his side of the story for the first time since he was thrown behind bars in Florida on Sunday ... and in a lengthy post, he explained the drama all stemmed from when he recently took "out a marker to gamble" in Vegas.
Marcus Morris Sr. just appeared in a Florida courtroom for the first time since his arrest over the weekend ... but things did not go the NBA star's way during the proceedings. The 35-year-old has been in custody in Broward County since Sunday over allegations he stiffed a casino in Las Vegas ... and at a hearing regarding the matter on Tuesday, Morris' attorneys asked for bond so he could get a handle on the issue.
A Florida man is standing trial on charges he murdered a former NBA player, but the defendant says he acted in self-defense. Lawrence Dority is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Adreian De Angelo Payne, a former Michigan State standout who later played for the Orlando Magic and Atlanta Hawks.
Marcus Morris arrested for fraud
Marcus Morris Sr. has been arrested on a fraud charge in Florida ... TMZ has learned. The 13-year NBA veteran was taken into custody Sunday in Broward County, Florida, according to online booking records.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo: Tax is bad in Los Angeles and New York
There's been a lot of speculation about Giannis Antetokounmpo's future in Milwaukee, with reports saying that he's keeping an eye on what the front office does this offseason. While on IShowSpeed's stream in Greece, he had this to say about his future in Milwaukee: IShowSpeed: Where do you live? LA? Giannis Antetokounmpo: No, Florida. Speed: Florida? Giannis: Yep. Taxes are better there, huh? Speed: Yep. Tax is good there. Giannis: Tax is better there. LA—the tax is bad. New York—tax is bad. Speed: Yeah. Giannis: Hell no. A lot of people tried to convince me to go and play there and stuff.
KC Johnson: Fun fact about Bulls’ first-round pick Noa Essengue: He’s represented by LIFT Sports Management, the agency co-founded by Billy Donovan’s prize recruit at Florida, Mike Miller
Byron Spruell, the NBA’s president of league operations, told The Athletic that the guidelines for coaches’ attire are a “modified dress code” stemming from the pandemic-necessitated bubble at Walt Disney World, outside Orlando, Fla., five years ago. Because of the withering heat and humidity of a Florida summer, it made sense at that time to relax the dress code because it made coaches more comfortable as they walked from their team buses to the arenas. In the years since, the league, in consultation with the coaches’ association, has continued with the modified dress code because coaches have gotten accustomed to a more casual look, because it’s easier for coaches to pack for road trips and because having everyone wear similar team-issued clothing adds an element of uniformity to coaching staffs.
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