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Charles Curtis

Markieff Morris calls Nikola Jokic ‘sloppy fat boy’ as Heat forward continues to miss games

Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris still hasn’t returned to playing for the franchise after Nikola Jokic’s vicious cheap shot from behind all the way back in November.

It was an incident that ignited quite the back and forth — Morris’s twin brother Marcus threatened the Denver Nuggets forward, then Jokic’s brothers joined Twitter to send threats to Marcus … yeah, it was a whole thing.

But Markieff still sounds furious at Jokic, lobbing an insult at the defending MVP when tweeting about his potential return soon, saying, “It’s a real injury! Imagine having a 300 pound sloppy fat boy run full speed and make direct contact with your spine!”

We await the Jokic brothers’ response …

 

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