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<\/a>Scumbag Marcus Morris, on the right, grabbing Luka Doncic, on the left. You can see on Morris’ face how hard he was trying to harm Luka!<\/p><\/div>\n
Actually, it made me be done with both one of my perennial favorite coaches along with the only local news channel* I ever watch. Or shall I more correctly say \u201cwatched.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just as I was writing a little tribute to Clippers Coach Doc Rivers the other day, (saying he was the hero of the week with his little speech against racism,) his scummy player, Marcus Morris, hit the Dallas Mavericks\u2019 star, Luka Doncic, in the head! Hard! Twice! It was awful. Not only was it one of the dirtiest plays I\u2019ve ever seen in all of sports, but it reminded me that Morris is the dirtiest player in basketball right now, perhaps even the dirtiest player I have ever seen in all my decades of loving basketball!!! He should be banned from the league, not just the playoffs. I hope his family is ashamed of him. What a horrible example for his baby son. And what an unmanly move to harm a player just because he himself cannot hold a candle to Luka, either in skill level or humanity.<\/p>\n
<\/a>One more angle of Marcus Morris trying to harm Luka Doncic. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n
So, instead of continuing that tribute to Doc I had just begun, I changed courses to write this little piece. I lost all respect for Doc Rivers that day because he stuck up for Morris on his scumbag move! I know coaches usually have to do that, but in this case he definitely should have said something softer, like he\u2019s sorry it happened, or it was in the heat of the moment and \u201cI\u2019ll talk to my player,\u201d or something like that. But instead he lied and said that the two hits to the head and hand wrapped around Luka\u2019s face were \u201cjust a follow-through,\u201d which they clearly <\/em>were not<\/em>, and that Morris just got ejected \u201cbecause he\u2019s him.\u201d Disgusting all the way around, which is par for the Clippers course.<\/p>\n Patrick Beverley yelling at the Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association in the NBA players’ meeting last week.<\/p><\/div>\n Par for the course because I realized that Morris is far from the only creepy Clipper this season. Unfortunately, there are several more: there\u2019s reverse racist Montrezl Harrell, (who called Luka, \u201cbitch ass white boy,\u201d in an earlier game; you know if it had been the other way around, there would have been hell to pay for the\u00a0offending player, as well there should<\/em> be!); creepy Patrick Beverley, (who had the nerve to tell the woman who\u2019s the Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association, \u201cI pay your salary!,\u201d when she was helping the players through the meetings about a possible walk-out last week\u2014lovely, right?); and flat-leaver Kawhi Leonard, whom I did<\/em> like when he was on the Championship teams of the Spurs and Raptors, but he left them both, the Spurs in an absolutely disloyal way. (He just didn\u2019t show up and didn\u2019t let them know anything. Not nice, not to mention very, very unprofessional.)<\/p>\n Oh wait\u2014I almost forgot about Lou Williams, who left the \u201cbubble\u201d to go home for some “personal matter, ” (which I believe is because his grandfather died,) but took that time to go to a strip club, lyingly saying the visit was because it\u2019s his \u201cfavorite restaurant,\u201d and not because of the naked women. Give me a break! And Joakim Noah, who continuously maligned the entire city of Cleveland when his Bulls team was losing badly to the Cavaliers in the play-offs in 2010. And that\u2019s just a snippet of all his creepy behavior throughout the years.<\/p>\n Just one aspect of the flagrant foul. This was right after Morris hit Doncic on the top of his head…twice!<\/p><\/div>\n I\u2019m too involved with trying to watch every second of two major sports right now (the NBA Play-offs and the US Open tennis tourney) to write the rest of this very coherently, so I\u2019m just going to list some of the notes I made on the night of the evil Morris incident. I was so upset that night that I got uber-depressed and was still in a funk the next day. So here are those notes, which\u00a0the League Office needs to read since they took no action against rotten Morris:<\/p>\n In Game 1, Morris grabbed Luka around the neck, leading to the insane ejection of Luka\u2019s teammate, Kristap Porzingis, who was just trying to protect him.<\/p>\n Then in one of the next three games, he pointed a \u201cfinger gun\u201d at Luka\u2019s injured ankle. (This was the game before<\/em> he stepped on it!) The evil Morris made a basket and then \u201cshot\u201d Luka’s ankle in just a creepy little move.<\/p>\n Then in Game 5, Morris ran out of his way to step on Luka\u2019s already-injured ankle.<\/p>\n Scumbag Clipper Marcus Morris going out of his way to step on Luka Doncic’s already-injured ankle! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n As if that wasn’t scummy enough, in the very next game, he hit Luka in the head twice and then grabbed him around the face, all in one play!!! I guess he just can\u2019t get over the fact that Luka is sooooooooooooooo much better than he is! On every level.<\/p>\n And the league has not punished him in any way, even though Morris is not just harming the young player for a game or a series\u2014he\u2019s messing with his future<\/em>. Luka is the game\u2019s brightest young player, so all these physical attacks on him could have been really career-altering, (which is probably what insecure Marcus Morris was setting-out to do, anyway!)<\/p>\n Commentator Charles Barkley said of Morris\u2019 latest evil move, \u201cMan, come on man, that\u2019s just cheap. You can\u2019t just slap people in the head!\u201d Then his fellow panelist, Kenny Smith expressed that he had no idea why Morris even did it, wondering \u201cWhy was he upset? I didn\u2019t understand the reasoning, to do that.\u201d So Chuck then explained, \u201cThey just tried to intimidate that kid, and he did not back down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>