Suns won't make a bad trade just to rid themselves of Markieff Morris
The Suns probably should have traded Markieff Morris during the offseason, after he went off publicly on the organization for dealing his twin brother Marcus to the Pistons.
Markieff demanded a trade at the time and said all kinds of regrettable things, but in the end, he showed up to training camp and acted completely professionally, at least for a while.
Morris was eventually suspended two games for throwing a towel at head coach Jeff Hornacek, but more importantly, his production has dipped considerably, and he's been wildly inconsistent. The Feb. 18 trade deadline is rapidly approaching, and everyone know that the Suns would like to part ways with Morris and move on from what's been a terrible situation. But according to a report from Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders, Phoenix won't make a bad trade just to rid themselves of the Markieff Morris problem.
There continues to be talk that the Phoenix Suns could move off forward Markieff Morris if they really wanted to, but there is a growing sense that what comes back in a Morris deal may not be very attractive to the Suns in both the short-term and the long-term.
Sources close to the Suns say that they are not going to make a bad deal just to force Morris off the roster, but as the deadline gets closer there is an increasing sense around the league that Phoenix might blink on a deal just to remove the problem from their equation.
The issue facing the Suns is that because Morris is disgruntled, and because of how far he's fallen in terms of his production, teams won't offer anywhere close to what they would have before the season began.
Morris is on a very reasonable contract, however, so a team might take a chance on him if it believes his attitude problems are simply location-based. It'll be up to the Suns to convince someone of that in order for them to receive anything resembling a legitimate trade offer, especially as Morris continues to struggle on the court this late in the season.
