On a Milwaukee Bucks team that may boast the most improbable rise of recent memory in all of sports in superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, new two-way player Jaylen Morris’ unlikely climb to the NBA is quite remarkable in itself.
Just over a year ago, Morris was weighing his professional options after completing his four-year stay playing for Division II school Molloy College in Long Island, New York. While he and his agent Ronnie Zeidel’s collective sights were initially set on Europe, the interest the 22-year-old generated overseas was not to the level of what they envisioned as Zeidel told Chris Vivlamore of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution earlier this year:
“You can send a kid overseas, and he can get lost real easily,” said Zeidel, of RZA Sports.