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Lisa Leslie, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, and Kendrick Perkins, a 2008 NBA champion with the Boston Celtics and current ESPN commentator, were announced as members of the basketball executive board for Wellington Sports Academy on Feb. 19 via social media. The executive board will also include brothers Markieff and Marcus Morris, who each played more than 13 NBA seasons. Wellington Sports Academy announced the Morris twins would serve as directors of basketball operations on March 5.
NBA Courtside: Grant Williams says LeBron had his own house in the NBA bubble. “He had a house on the campus. They had their own set up. Their team was taken care of”. Markieff Morris: lol cap he was two doors down from me! Dog was locked down just like the rest of us. We had a madden league. We played all the games in his room. We was damn near gaming all night! Grant Williams: The whole team was in the hotel. Bron had a room as well. At the time it was communicated that he had the room as well as a house on campus. I spoke with that knowledge but I’ll say publicly i was wrong and spoke with inaccurate information.
The Morris Twins said it’ll be a ‘landslide’ if they had the opportunity to fight the Jokic brothers: “I’m 6’8 280…these big chested MFers can’t move. I’ll punch both of these n*ggas in their chest…I'm putting hands on them n*ggas easy. Like, it ain't even a question… it's a landslide.”
Q. How long did you have this information before you tweeted it? Shams Charania: Seven minutes. Five different sources. First heads up: Markieff Morris is being traded to the Lakers. Second heads up: Maxi Klber is being traded to the Lakers. I'm like, what is what is going on? Then I get another source. Three-team deal. Lakers, Mavs, Jazz. Jalen Hood-Schifino is going to Utah. I'm like, what is this three-team deal? These are a bunch of, you know, guys that are on contracts that are like, are they just trading small salaries for small salaries? And then the fourth person tells me Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis, these are all the parts. The whole deal. I got the whole deal. And I'm like, am I being catfished right now? I got to call this person. Call them. Hear their voice. It's real. I'm like, holy… And like my hands are literally shaking. I'm like sweating. Mind you, the context of this, it's like 11 central time. I'm in Chicago. The Lakers had just beaten the Knicks by a lot in New York at the Garden on a Saturday night. My hair was all down. I had my glasses on. I was getting ready to shut it down for the night. And I'm just like my hands are trembling. Like I'm just like this is unbelievable. I called the fifth person. Actually, I called someone else. The phone didn't even ring. Wouldn't even go. So I'm like, ‘This person is definitely dealing with this right now.’ I call another person. The person picks up. I'm like, ‘There's no way this sh*t is f*cking real." And the person goes, ‘Yeah, it's f*cking real.’ Next thing you know, that's that. Seven minutes.
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But five years later, he’s still playing competitive basketball and is still very arguably among the ten best players in the sport. So that begs the question, how much longer could LeBron do this? And Markieff was very certain of James’ possible longevity on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast: “What’s he right now 41, 42? He for sure can play until 46. That’s for a fact, that’s factual. He’s 42 and he’s still having the best years of his career, at 42. He could play until 46. I’d say another four years if he wanted to. He could play four more years if he wanted to. He’s playing now at such a high level and he’s the second-best player on the team, so he’s the focal point.”
Retired NBA forward Marcus Morris once again set the record straight about his alleged fraud, doubling down on his denial of writing a bad check, Morris went on a NSFW rant about his arrest. After he was freed from jail, the NBA podcast host joined his twin brother, Markieff Morris, to explain his side of the story. The Morris brothers explained how everything went down. A frustrated Morris admitted to some wrongdoing, but not one to the extent of writing bad checks or committing fraud, which was how his rant started as part of a short 20-minute episode, per Marcus and Markieff Morris’ YouTube channel. “Don’t ever put my name with nothing but fraud. This is not fraud activity,” Morris said. “I have never wrote a check to no casinos in exchange for money that I can put in my pocket. I wrote exchange for credit thinking that you know the source of the income and you know what I’ve done in the past years to pay it back plus put the money back that I chose to take from y’all to gamble with. So you know I want to just clear that up and then you could take it how you want.”
The ordeal for Morris is a valuable lesson he warned others about after having spent days inconserated. “You could think about think about me this way. But I know what my loved ones and the people that surround us and the people we surround ourselves with really feel about us,” Morris added. “But listen, jail, don’t f*** with it. Don’t f*** with it. That’s why we had to do this s*** outside cuz I couldn’t sit in no small ass room. I came home, I think I slept outside.”
Morris -- who was wearing handcuffs and a jail-issued jumpsuit -- did not speak during the proceedings. His brother, former NBA champion Markieff Morris, was in the courtroom offering support.
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Shaquille O’Neal: Tracy McGrady made a statement the other day. He said, "If you switch him and Kobe out as far as playing with me, the outcome is the same." You agree or disagree? Markieff Morris: No, you're not just saying you're switching out with Kobe and you're going to be what Kobe was. I don't agree with that. Nothing away from nothing away from T-Mac. No, you're not Kobe. And that mentality, too. Shaquille O’Neal: I might have to disagree. Marcus Morris: The main difference Big Fella is the mentality. That killer mentality. Everybody didn't have that. Like you was a good he was a great player, don't get me wrong, but it was times that Michael Jordan and Kobe I felt like that Mike gave Kobe something that nobody else would be able to be able to even imitate and be able to like have that mentality. No other players had it really. Shaquille O’Neal: You don't think I could have won three with T-Mac? I think I could have.
Adam Lefkoe: I'm terrified of Jokic's brother. That one dude looks so enormous. He's big with like the mohawk. Markieff Morris: What does it mean? The bigger they are, the harder they fall. We big too. I'm 6-10, 270. It ain't like I'm a small guy. I'm bigger than them. Adam Lefkoe: We can arrange this. Marcus Morris: Yeah, for sure! We can get as long as they don’t use their feet, we can get it on. Markieff Morris: Please, please! Marcus Morris: As long as you can't use your feet. No kicking. Shaquille O’Neal: Oh because one of them is an MMA fighter? Marcus Morris: They’d be grabbing feet and all that. We can't do that. We can get it on straight. Adam Lefkoe: So only boxing. Marcus Morris: Only boxing.
One Lakers player who knows Luka better than anyone is Markieff Morris after playing with him in Dallas and coming over in the trade. Morris appeared on ESPN’s First Take on Monday morning and defended Doncic while reacting to the photos that emerged on Sunday: “That’s my guy, Luka. Like Stephen A. said, that regiment in the season you would think we’re in better shape because of the season, but when you’re eating hotel food, you’re getting in at 3 o’clock in the morning in different cities, you have to eat at 4 o’clock in the morning with a back-to-back. All that stuff takes a toll on your body. The stress of being in a long season, the stress of being traded mid-season. It’s just the things he went through last year. He’s back in Madrid, I know how he likes Madrid, we were in Madrid last year with the team. He’s back in his environment, he’s having a great time, and right now I don’t even think he’s worried about anything. I just think he’s happy this season is over. I don’t think he’s happy how this season ended, but I think he’s happy it’s over. He’s going to regroup. Like Stephen A. said, when you’re in the summer, you’re eating that good food, you got that regiment, you got that chef, anything is possible when it comes to losing weight.”