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LOS ANGELES — Marcus Morris Sr. hasn’t checked into a crippled since Oct. 23, but the Clippers guardant was 1 of the cardinal players successful the NBA play playing retired connected societal media Monday and Tuesday.
Emotions were moving precocious connected Twitter aft Nikola Jokic blindsided Morris’ twin, Markieff, with a retaliatory bodycheck precocious successful Monday’s crippled betwixt the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat. Both players were ejected.
As the league evaluated whether to level further punishment (Denver’s Jokic, the NBA MVP, was suspended for 1 crippled and Markieff Morris, who plays for Miami, was fined $50,000), Marcus fto it beryllium known Monday nighttime that he’d reached a verdict already, suggesting that Jokic’s actions were soiled and that helium wouldn’t hide it.
“Waited till bro turned his backmost smh. NOTED,” tweeted Marcus, the hard-nosed seasoned who has been sidelined for astir of the play truthful far, constricted to the value country and conditioning portion helium tackles what the Clippers picture arsenic “injury maintenance” connected his ailing near knee.
Marcus’ tweet got a effect from Jokic’s brothers, Strahinja and Nemanja, who started a Twitter relationship named “@JokicBrothers” specifically to respond to Marcus, The Denver Post reported.
Armed with a caller account, astatine 7:01 a.m. they tweeted: “You should permission this the mode it is alternatively of publically threatening our brother! Your member made a soiled play first. If you privation to marque a measurement further beryllium definite we volition beryllium waiting for you !! Jokic Brothers.”
Just got a substance from Jokic’s brother. This is their existent relationship responding to Marcus Morris’s tweet past night. https://t.co/ON4AH3JxwN
— Mike Singer (@msinger) November 9, 2021
At 11:50 a.m., Marcus seemed acceptable to extremity the Twitter dispute, indicating he’d gotten immoderate omniscient counsel: “Momma said don’t speech connected societal media nary more! Well There you person it. I emotion you momma.”
But a mates of minutes later, helium sent a reply to the Jokic brothers’ connection to him: “You got the close ones judge that!”
And six minutes aft that, the Jokic bros. changeable back: “I don’t believe…I cognize that!”
Before his squad tipped disconnected against the Portland Trail Blazers connected Tuesday evening, Clippers manager Tyronn Lue said helium doesn’t person societal media accounts, but helium was good alert of the dust-up successful the crippled the erstwhile night.
“I did spot the play,” Lue said. “And I’m beauteous definite Marcus is gonna effort and support his member arsenic well, but I don’t get into it, that’s their thing.”
The Clippers’ archetypal gathering with the Nuggets this play is Dec. 26 astatine Staples Center.
Waited till bro turned his backmost smh. NOTED ✍🏾
— Marcus Morris (@MookMorris2) November 9, 2021
PG PROPS
Paul George was recognized Monday arsenic the NBA’s Western Conference Player of the Week for his enactment the past 4 games, a agelong during which helium averaged 26.3 points, 8.8 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 1.8 steals.
“Congrats to him,” Clippers halfway Isaiah Hartenstein said, via Zoom, earlier shootaround Tuesday. “He’s been a large portion of america going connected that winning streak.”
And Portland manager Chauncey Billups – who worked intimately with George past play erstwhile helium was a Clippers adjunct – said helium was gladsome to spot it, adjacent if helium knew L.A.’s prima would beryllium a unsafe adversary Tuesday.
“I’m blessed for PG, obviously,” Billups said. “He’s playing connected an MVP level. I deliberation helium knows the situation that helium has up of him this twelvemonth with nary Kawhi (Leonard) for now. And you conscionable privation a feline similar that to enactment everybody connected his backmost and say, ‘Let’s go, let’s springiness ourselves a chance.’ And he’s done that each azygous night. He’s conscionable a matchup nightmare, man.”
Waited till bro turned his backmost smh. NOTED ✍🏾
— Marcus Morris (@MookMorris2) November 9, 2021
Momma said don’t speech connected societal media nary more! Well There you person it. I emotion you momma.
— Marcus Morris (@MookMorris2) November 9, 2021
You got the close ones judge that!
— Marcus Morris (@MookMorris2) November 9, 2021
The pursuing has been released by the NBA. pic.twitter.com/LY1p6ooesW
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) November 10, 2021
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