Media day for the Washington Wizards is a campy occasion. Players are shuffled from station to station, taking pictures spinning a ball, grabbing a ball, holding signs or flexing their muscles. They make television appearances, press conference appearances and talk to radio hosts. Even the new players on the back-end of the roster, who may not make the team, are filtered through.
A notable gruff voice was missing Monday.
Absent was Wizards power forward, resident enforcer and likely expletive-dropper Markieff Morris. Morris had sports hernia surgery Sept. 22. He had to push the surgery to late September because he and his fiancee were expecting his first child, plus Morris had to be present in Maricopa County (Arizona) court last week.