The NBA has fined Markieff Morris $10,000 for making "a public statement detrimental to the (league)" following his tweet that he'd no longer be a member of the Phoenix Suns at the start of the 2015-16 season, per Dan Feldman of Pro Basketball Talk, citing a release from the league.
The relationship between Morris and the Suns has been fractured ever since the team traded his brother, Marcus, to the Detroit Pistons earlier in the summer. Marcus Morris was particularly vocal about his displeasure with the Phoenix organization, per the Associated Press (via ESPN.com): "Everybody knew how bad I wanted to play with my brother. Phoenix knew. For them to trade me without consent or telling or anything like that was kind of like a, I would say slap in the face, because of the contract I took from those guys and the money I took from them. That was kind of a slap in the face."
Then in August, Markieff drew a line in the sand and told Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer that he wanted out of Phoenix: "One thing for sure, I am not going to be there. If you want to put that out there, you can put that out. I don' ...
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Markieff Morris Fined $10K for Expressing Desire to be Traded by Suns
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