Celtics' Morris: Outside Kawhi, 'I'm probably the best guy' at defending LeBron

With their Eastern Conference finals series against the Cleveland Cavaliers around the corner, the Boston Celtics tweeted out a link from their official account Friday, directing readers to an NBA.com story about how they match up defensively with the Cavs.

"LeBron James has been on a tear during the postseason, but history suggests that Marcus Morris could help us slow him down," the tweet read.

By Saturday, both the tweet and the article had been removed. Morris, though, is confident he can prove that supposition correct and defend James as well as just about anyone in the NBA. He says he's learned some things since the last time he faced James in the postseason as a member of the Detroit Pistons in 2016.

"I’m a little older, a little more experienced," Morris told reporters Saturday, according to ESPN's Chris Forsberg. "Personally, I think I’m probably the best guy defending him in the league, outside of Kawhi (Leonard)."

Leaving Leonard's two-time Defensive Player of the Year bona fides aside, poking the bear has never been a particularly effective strategy when that bear is James. Stanley Johnson, Morris' then-rookie teammate in that Pistons-Cavs series, famously said he was "definitely in (LeBron's) head" before the Cavs went out and swept Detroit. The Washington Wizards learned their own hard lesson early this season when they accused the Cavs of ducking them in last year's playoffs and James responded by hanging 57 points on them.

But Morris isn't too concerned about James breaking his spirit, the way he did to his second-round opponent.

"I've never really been at a point where anybody’s ever broken me with shots or anything like that," Morris said, according to Mark Murphy of the Boston Herald. "I think he’s probably broken Toronto."