NBA's Marcus Morris Charged With Fraud In Las Vegas

NBA veteran Marcus Morris Sr. was arrested at a South Florida airport on Sunday and booked into the Broward County Main Jail on a fraud charge for a check made with insufficient funds.

According to CBS News, Morris is on an out-of-state hold in Florida as he awaits extradition to Las Vegas, where he is accused of financial fraud involving two casinos. His agent, Yony Noy, said on social media that there is “zero fraud here” and called the arrest “absolute insanity.”

“Apparently if you have over $1,200 they can issue a warrant for your arrest,” Noy said, suggesting that Morris was arrested over an outstanding marker with a casino.

Morris’ twin brother, Markieff Morris, also took to social media Sunday to echo Noy’s sentiments.

“The wording is crazy,” he tweeted. “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 shit. They could have came to the crib for all that. When y’all hear the real story on this shit, man. All I can say is Lesson learned. Bro will tell y’all tomorrow. This weird shit gave me a headache. Can’t stop nothin!”

Of course, the glaring issue with what Noy and Markieff have to say about Morris’ case is that it doesn’t actually reflect what the 35-year-old is actually accused of, which is much more than a rack or so of gambling debt.

From TMZ Sports:

Marcus Morris‘ latest legal woes stem from allegations he stole over $250,000 from two prominent Las Vegas casinos … TMZ Sports has learned.

According to court documents we obtained, the NBA player allegedly got $115,000 from the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino via bad checks in May 2024 … and never paid it back when the checks bounced.

Officials state around a month later, in June 2024, he performed a similar scam at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel and Casino … netting $150,000 through checks he knew wouldn’t cash.

The docs show two separate warrants for Morris’ arrest were issued over the claims earlier this year.

Morris also went on Threads and Instagram to defend himself, denying the allegations against him and essentially claiming he didn’t really understand how casino markers work.

“I never wrote a check at any point to a casino. When you get a marker, that’s considered a check — which I didn’t know,” he wrote.

“You can’t spend markers outside of the casino. No money was exchanged or taken into my pocket,” he went on to explain. “Them coins ain’t changing no lifestyles on this side.”

He also sounded off about the jail conditions he endured while in custody.

“24-hour [lockdown with] no food or water,” he wrote. “That’s the part that hurt me the most. I’ve put my time and resources into everyone in my life, but to be treated in that manner did something to me.”

In his lengthy “F*CK VEGAS” Threads rant, he suggested that putting him in handcuffs and arresting him on fraud charges was unnecessary regardless of the details of his case.

“We could’ve handled that MOB style before that option,” he wrote, begging the question: Has Morris even seen the movie Casino?

Morris, who is currently a free agent and last played in the NBA during the 2023-24 season, is not a complete stranger to run-ins with the law. In 2012, CBS noted he and his brother were looking at battery charges for allegedly punching an employee at a bar in Lawrence, Kansas. They were ultimately found not guilty of aggravated assault.

We’ll have to wait and see how his legal woes turn out this time, because — yikes!