It was Sunday in additional methods than one for the New York Knicks.
The Knicks capped off a busy weekend by including one other former Phoenix Solar to their roster, asserting the signing of veteran starter Marcus Morris to an Exhibit 9 (primarily non-guaranteed/non-two-way) contract.
Along with bringing in one other former participant (simply hours after signing Landry Shamet and months after buying Mikal Bridges in a commerce), the Knicks introduced Morris again after he spent 43 video games in Manhattan throughout the 2019-20 marketing campaign. If his Instagram story is any indication, these 43 impressions have been fairly lasting.
“Like I by no means left,” Morris stated, captioning a photograph from his first metropolitan time period..
Marcus Morris on IG: pic.twitter.com/5P1cg7xyWp
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The well-traveled Morris, who spent final season between Philadelphia and Cleveland, has amassed a small cult following amongst Knicks followers for making the dismal 2019-20 season a bit of extra bearable: Regardless of being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers halfway by way of the season, Morris led the workforce in scoring at 19.6 factors per sport and likewise hit 43.9 p.c of his three-point makes an attempt.
A kind of three factors was a last-minute game-winning shot that lifted the Pink Sox to a nationally televised victory over the Dallas Mavericks at Madison Sq. Backyard. Morris additionally scored a career-best 38 factors in a 135-132 loss to, sarcastically, the Clippers later within the season earlier than being despatched west in a deal that acquired Moe Harkless and draft concerns.
On the time, the Knicks have been having such a dismal season that they have been denied entry into the Walt Disney World bubble when the 2019-20 season resumed after a COVID-19-induced hiatus. That prematurely ended the David Fizdale period and produced simply 21 wins in a shortened marketing campaign.
Morris, nevertheless, realized to get pleasure from his time in New York and was greater than prepared to remain if it have been as much as him.
“I really like our workforce,” Morris informed The Athletic Mike Vorkunov “I really like our future. I simply need to be part of serving to our younger gamers develop and develop into the nice gamers that they’re going to be. That’s why I made the choice to return right here, going again on the selections I made, and lots of different issues, however I’m right here. I really like this group. I really like the gamers they’ve right here and I need to be right here for the lengthy haul.”
