{"id":117568,"date":"2017-09-13T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T09:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=117568"},"modified":"2017-09-13T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T09:23:36","slug":"phoenix-trial-begins-for-nba-players-accused-of-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/13\/phoenix-trial-begins-for-nba-players-accused-of-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix trial begins for NBA players accused of assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_117570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117570\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/31320535910_79469fb446_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117570\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/31320535910_79469fb446_z.jpg\" alt=\"NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris (Photo: Keith Allison\/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/31320535910_79469fb446_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/31320535910_79469fb446_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithallison\/31320535910\/in\/photolist-PHFW8Q\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithallison\/\">Keith Allison\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A trial will begin for NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris, who allegedly assaulted a man outside a Phoenix recreation centre two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa County Superior Court officials announced the trial&#8217;s upcoming jury selection will start Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Morris brothers are accused of helping three other people beat 36-year-old Erik Hood on Jan. 24, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Hood told Phoenix police that he was repeatedly punched and kicked while sustaining a fractured nose, abrasions and a large bump on his head.<\/p>\n<p>Hood is an acquaintance of the Morris brothers and reportedly had a falling-out with them in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-9 Morris twins became teammates in 2013 when Marcus was traded to the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus was traded to the Boston Celtics in July 2017, and Markieff is now with the Washington Wizards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A trial will begin for NBA players Marcus and Markieff Morris, who allegedly assaulted a man outside a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":117570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[23738,23739,904,728],"class_list":["post-117568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-marcus-morris","tag-markieff-morris","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}