Knicks ink former Clippers player to a one-year contract

Time is ticking, and the 2024-25 NBA season is less than six weeks away. It will not be long before the LA Clippers’ players, coaches, training staff and others all gather in Los Angeles for media day, before hopping on a plane to Hawaii for training camp in the first week of October.

In the meantime, fans will be anxiously awaiting the start of the season and the first ever Clippers game inside Intuit Dome. LA’s new-look roster will all be present on opening night, but some of the recently-departed former players have of course moved on to their new teams.

The Clippers have built up a pretty extensive list of former players from the “213” era alone. Kawhi Leonard and Paul George have needed high-level help in the form of reliable role players, and plenty of them have suited up alongside LA’s former star duo over the last five seasons.

Perhaps one of the most notable Clippers role players of the last five years is Marcus Morris. On Sunday, it was reported by Shams Charania that Morris had agreed to a one-year contract with the New York Knicks.

Assuming he is still on the roster at the start of the regular season, Morris will be playing in his 14th NBA season with New York, who is expected to be one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference once again. It will be Marcus’ second stint with the Knicks after playing with them during the 2019-20 season.

Morris was of course first acquired by the Clippers back at the trade deadline in February 2020 from New York. He would spend the remainder of the 2019-20 season in Los Angeles, suiting up as a Clipper all the way until the November 2023 trade for James Harden that sent him to Philadelphia.

Some Clippers fans will still cheer for Marcus. But it feels like the vast majority will not care for him at this point, especially given how his time in Los Angeles ended. Morris was unhappy with his role during the tail end of his Clippers stint, and many were happy to see him go after his on-court performance dropped.