We have reached the part of the battle between the brothers Morris and Jokic where one side lashes out against the media.

Monday night’s Heat-Nuggets game featured a brouhaha in which Markieff Morris took a cheap shot at Nikola Jokic, who responded with a much more forceful cheap shot. Morris’ twin brother Marcus, a forward on the Clippers, was getting called out by Jokic’s brothers, Nemanja and Strahinja, who attend every Nuggets game and have been billed essentially as characters from a pulp film. One Denver radio host says they have already bought tickets to Nuggets-Heat in Miami at the end of this month.

Within the span of about 45 minutes on Tuesday afternoon, Marcus Morris said he was taking his mother’s advice and putting the issue behind him, and then re-entered the fray to tell Shannon Sharpe to “shut your drunk a– up” after the Fox Sports host defended Jokic.

2:50 pm: “Momma said don’t talk on social media no more!” Marcus Morris tweeted. “Well There you have it. I love you momma.”

3:37 pm: Morris sees a Shannon Sharpe tweet defending Jokic, responds, “Man shut your drunk ass up.”

As a media member, there is no greater badge of honor for Sharpe than to be included in the storyline like this. As Reggie Jackson used to say, they “don’t boo nobodies.” When Sharpe gets responded to like this, it means he has cut through the clutter and is relevant enough to warrant attention.