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    How fire, an AAU coach and a game of H-O-R-S-E connected Clippers teammates — 10 years ago

    by Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times Mar 09, 2023 6 minutes
    Bones Hyland of the Los Angeles Clippers is guarded by Malik Monk of the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center on March 3, 2023, in Sacramento, California.

    LOS ANGELES — Skip Robinson remembers the moment Bones Hyland first met Marcus Morris Sr. with vivid clarity, because seeing a middle-schooler issue a challenge to an NBA player 11 years his senior, before so much as saying hello, is not something that is easily forgotten.

    It was nearly a decade ago and Robinson, as the coach of Hyland's Philadelphia-based Amateur Athletic Union team, asked the guard about his goals. The response was matter-of-fact, and assured: the NBA. Robinson happened to know someone who understood what that would take: A decade before then, Robinson had coached an AAU team featuring Morris and his twin, Markieff. He brokered a meeting.

    "We were in the gym getting prepared for a tournament and I had the twins come up and Marcus is like, 'Who's the best kid right now?' I'm like, 'I think Bones has the most potential.'

    "But at the time he might have weighed 115 pounds, was probably like 5-9.

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