{"id":44386,"date":"2025-08-04T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44386\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:49:08","slug":"ex-clippers-forward-chooses-carmelo-anthony-over-kevin-durant-and-kawhi-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44386\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Clippers Forward Chooses Carmelo Anthony Over Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-1\" class=\"data-event\">Marcus Morris got into hot water a couple of months ago after claiming that Kawhi Leonard was more feared in the NBA than Stephen Curry. With that still fresh in many people\u2019s minds, Morris\u2019 decision to select Carmelo Anthony over Kawhi during a \u2018start, bench, or cut\u2019 question surprised everyone.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-2\" class=\"data-event\">Morris appeared on the latest episode of Real Talk with MJ and addressed several things, including his upbringing in Philadelphia and his new job with ESPN.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-3\" class=\"data-event\">Morris began by praising Leonard and claimed that they kind of grew up together. Labeling Kawhi a very hard-working player, Morris felt sorry about not having won the title with him for the Clippers. He also mentioned that Kawhi really cared about the game, and it was great to see him without any injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-4\" class=\"data-event\">Sensing this to be an opportune moment, the host presented Morris with a tough question.\u00a0\u201cCouple of questions \u2026 Start, bench, cut. We\u2019ve got prime Melo [Carmelo Anthony], prime KD [Kevin Durant], prime Kawhi,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3zbs5M8YeuQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">chuckled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-5\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cD***,\u201d was Morris\u2019 first reaction to the toughie. But he did answer. After a moment of thought, Morris added, \u201cHey, that\u2019s though bro. I am going with \u2026 cutting Kawhi.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-6\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cI\u2019m cutting Kawhi,\u201d he reiterated, before explaining his reason. \u201cEven though he played both sides of the ball, you know what I mean? I am cutting wide open because them other two monsters, they scored just too well. And you know what? I am going to get the edge to Melo. I am bringing KD off the bench.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-7\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cMelo \u2026 s***, when I was young, that\u2019s the only player I used to watch. Like Melo was my guy, you know what I mean. He scored it crazy. KD scored crazy too. They already know that\u2019s just my preference. Both, crazy amazing players, amazing scores if we are just talking about straight buckets. It might not be everybody\u2019s cup of tea but the s*** Melo used to do, I was always a fan of,\u201d Morris added conclusively.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-8\" class=\"data-event\">After nodding to Morris\u2019s answer the entire time, the host asserted that due to the ring culture, people often underestimate how much Anthony has accomplished in his career.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-9\" class=\"data-event\">Melo\u2019s record speaks for itself. It is not easy to be selected as an NBA All-Star ten times and an All-NBA Team six times. Perhaps Morris had a point in selecting Anthony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Morris got into hot water a couple of months ago after claiming that Kawhi Leonard was more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-44386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}