{"id":47207,"date":"2025-07-30T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/47207\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:30:11","slug":"longtime-nba-player-allegedly-stole-250000-from-vegas-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/47207\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime NBA Player Allegedly Stole $250,000 From Vegas Casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longtime NBA Player Allegedly Stole $250,000 From Vegas Casinos<\/a> originally appeared on The Spun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marcus Morris Sr. made more than $100 million over the course of his 13 years in the NBA. But the 35-year-old veteran<\/a> has reportedly gotten himself caught up in a troublesome fraud charge that led to him being arrested in Florida over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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According to reports, Morris, who last played for the Cleveland Cavaliers two years ago, is alleged to have stolen more than $250,000 from a pair of prominent Las Vegas casinos.<\/p>\n

Per court documents obtained by TMZ Sports<\/a>, Morris is claimed to have\u00a0gotten $115,000 out of the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino through bad checks that he never paid back.<\/p>\n

\"WASHINGTON,<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 07: Marcus Morris #13 of the New York Knicks looks on before the game against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena on October 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty Images)Scott Taetsch&sol;Getty Images<\/p>\n

And then about a month later, authorities claim the former Kansas star pulled something similar at the\u00a0Wynn Las Vegas resort where he allegedly netted $150,000 through checks<\/a> he knew wouldn’t cash.<\/p>\n

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Morris’ agent Yony Noy took to social media to dismiss the claims made against his client. Calling them “absolute insanity” and saying there was “zero fraud.”<\/p>\n

“Just so everyone understands this is zero fraud here or whatever crap outlets have said regarding fake checks or whatever the hell,” Noy posted<\/a> to X. “This is due to an outstanding marker with a casino. Apparently if you have over $1,200 they can issue a warrant for your arrest. Absolute insanity!”<\/p>\n

Marcus’ twin Markieff also weighed in on the situation where he similarly shut down the headlines made by his brother.<\/p>\n

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“The wording is crazy,” Kieff said. “Damn for that amount of money they’ll embarrass you in the airport with your family. They got y’all really thinking bro did some fraud [expletive]. They could have came to the crib for all that. When y’all hear the real story on this [expletive] man. All I can say is Lesson learned. Bro will tell y’all tomorrow. This weird [expletive] gave me a headache. Can’t stop nothin!”<\/p>\n

Both of the Morris twins had been appearing on ESPN as analysts recently where they’d regularly make cameos on programs like “First Take” and “Get Up.”<\/p>\n

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Under Nevada state law unpaid casino markers are treated as bad checks, according to multiple law firms. And if not repaid within a specified timeframe, they can be treated as a class D felony which could result in a 1-4 year prison sentence.<\/p>\n

Related: Congratulations Pouring In For NFL Legend Michael Vick<\/a><\/p>\n

Longtime NBA Player Allegedly Stole $250,000 From Vegas Casinos<\/a> first appeared on The Spun on Jul 29, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Jul 29, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime NBA Player Allegedly Stole $250,000 From Vegas Casinos originally appeared on The Spun. Marcus Morris Sr. made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8174,37064,2114,33467,37065,37061,355,361,99,7335,11948,37062,37063],"class_list":["post-47207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-fake-checks","tag-las-vegas","tag-marcus-morris","tag-markieff","tag-mgm-grand-hotel-casino","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-the-nba","tag-washington-wizards","tag-wynn-las-vegas","tag-yony-noy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}