Marcus Morris Sr. was arrested on Sunday related to a fraud charge while in Broward County, Florida, online booking records showed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NBA player and ex-Knick was picked up on a felony charge of Fraud \u2013 Writing a Check with Insufficient Funds, with the report indicating he was arrested at an airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The online record also indicated that the charge is related to a case in another state and he is being held without bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other specific information surrounding the charge was not immediately available, but in a post on X, Morris indicated that the situation wasn\u2019t as serious as it may first appear. <\/p>\n
Marcus Morris Sr.\u2019s mugshot after being arrested on fraud charges on Sunday. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe wording is crazy. Damn for that amount of money they\u2019ll embarrass you in the airport with your family,\u201d he wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cThey got y\u2019all really thinking bro did some fraud s\u2013t. They could have came to the crib for all that. When y\u2019all hear the real story on this s\u2013t man. All I can say is Lesson learned. Bro will tell y\u2019all tomorrow. This weird s\u2013t gave me a headache. Can\u2019t stop nothin!\u201d<\/p>\n This is not the first time that Morris has found himself dealing with legal issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n Morris had entered a diversion program due to a battery charge in 2012 and was found not guilty of assault charges related to a 2015 basketball brawl.\u00a0<\/p>\n Morris has played 13 seasons in the NBA from 2011 to his last appearance in the league in 2024, with time spent playing for the Rockets, Suns, Pistons, Celtics, Knicks, Clippers, 76ers, and Cavaliers.\u00a0<\/p>\n His most recent stops in the NBA had been with the 76ers and Cavaliers during the 2023-24 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Marcus Morris Sr. of the Philadelphia 76ers in action against the Houston Rockets during the first half at Toyota Center on December 29, 2023 in Houston, Texas. Getty Images<\/p>\n Marcus Morris #13 of the New York Knicks scored two at AT&T Center on October 23, 2019. Getty Images<\/p>\n Morris played one year with the Knicks during the 2019-20 season, in which he appeared in 43 games, averaging 19.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n He ended up being dealt to the\u00a0Clippers at the trade deadline that season in a deal that involved Moe Harkless coming to the Knicks.<\/p>\n Morris did end up briefly back with the Knicks last season when he signed a training camp deal on Sept. 15, only to be released less than two weeks later.\u00a0<\/p>\n Marcus Morris Sr. #8 of the LA Clippers in the second half at Crypto.com Arena on November 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n Morris had begun appearing on ESPN\u2019s \u201cFirst Take\u201d earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Morris had been a former first-round draft pick when he was selected in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n That year, the Rockets used the 14th overall pick to take Morris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Morris Sr. was arrested on Sunday related to a fraud charge while in Broward County, Florida, online…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2504,64334,64335,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-98281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-athlete-arrests","9":"tag-celebrity-arrests","10":"tag-marcus-morris","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114928575183630017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}