Today's Heat forward Markieff Morris was fined $25,000 by the league, and some fans may be surprised, Morris did not play for a minute in the series with the Hawks, why was he still fined? The reason is that he has the outrageous behavior shown in the picture below on the bench, this guy actually held the Eagles player Hunter who was lurking outside the bottom corner of the three-point line with both hands, causing him to be out of bounds all the time, trying to cause him to make a mistake in receiving the ball, and then the referee gave him a technical foul, and the NBA fined him today.
Elbowed Jokic and lost completely
This season has been a disastrous season for Morris, but he caused it all. During the November game against the Nuggets, he deliberately elbowed Jokic, who was advancing with the ball, which obviously angered him, and then Jokic shoved Morris to the ground, and when Jokic pushed him, Morris missed more than four months of games, and he was not able to return to the game until March 14 against the Minnesota Timberwolves. In that conflict, Morris can be said to have lost completely, he was not only heavily fined fifty thousand dollars, but also missed many games due to injury, and even public opinion condemned his behavior and believed that he deserved to be injured.
Since then, everything has changed
Morris, 32, joined the Heat with a base salary this season and wanted to provide roster depth to the team that aspires to win the championship, continue to provide value, and continue his NBA career. All of this changed when he decided to elbow Jokic, with Morsela averaging more than 18 minutes per game for the Heat, but after he was injured by Jokic, he didn't return to the game until March, when the Heat would have built up a good chemistry and Coach Spoo trusted him in the new lineup he had built. As a result, morris has not earned a minute of playing time so far in the playoffs. Predictably, barring a heat injury next, Morris will be on the bench to watch the rest of the game.
Since entering the NBA, it has been a thorn in the head
In fact, Markieff Morris is a very famous thornhead, starting his career with the Phoenix Suns, and in 13 years, just before the start of the third-year season, he was banned from the league for elbowing Ibaka in preseason, missing the regular season opener. In fact, at that time, the Sun was very optimistic about Morris, hoping that he could grow into a team building puzzle for the team's future. After the Suns chose to trade his brother Marcus Morris to the Pistons, big Morris did not want to stay, he immediately asked the Suns to trade him away, after that, the big Morris broke the jar, after the start of the 15-16 season, he made many technical fouls in the game, resulting in Hornacek, who was still the coach of the old Yang at the time, directly to his DNP, and then the Suns traded him to the Wizards in the middle of the season, ending the bad relationship.
If time goes back, Morris certainly doesn't want that round to appear, after all, he hasn't won a minute to play now, and the new season doesn't know if he can get a new contract from an NBA team.