Morris bitter months after Jokic scrap: 'I don't want to hear from him'
Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris wants nothing to do with Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic more than four months after the MVP candidate injured him.
"F--- nah, I don't want to hear from him," Morris said Saturday following Miami's 113-104 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, according to The Athletic's Joe Vardon. "He did what he did, and it is what it is."
The incident between Morris and Jokic occurred in the fourth quarter of Miami's blowout loss to Denver on Nov. 8. After Morris delivered a cheap shot to Jokic's side, the 27-year-old Serbian retaliated with a hard shove to the back of an unsuspecting Morris. The Heat veteran fell to the ground and was later diagnosed with whiplash that sidelined him for 58 games.
Jokic, who said afterward he "felt really bad" for shoving Morris, was suspended one game for his actions. Morris, meanwhile, was fined $50,000.
"The first two weeks, I probably didn't sleep just based off of what happened to me and me not being able to really control the situation," Morris said about the aftermath of the incident. "That was the first time in my life where I couldn’t control something. I moved past it. Took me a while."
Morris, 32, finished Saturday's contest with six points on 3-of-7 shooting and four rebounds in 17 minutes.