The fortune-teller only saw one of the Morris twins when they walked by her shop window near Manhattan's Union Square. Markieff and Marcus, both nearly 7 feet tall and identical in almost every other way, passed by on their way to Flight Club, a sneakerhead mecca on lower Broadway.
They were in town to play the Knicks the next afternoon, a Saturday matinee. Markieff had walked ahead. If she had seen them side by side, simply telling them apart would've been a decent display of her skills.
The fortune-teller, undaunted by Marcus' size, approached and told him what she did. Marcus challenged her to demonstrate.
"You're not happy with the position you're in," she said.
"Damn," Marcus thought. He was thrilled to be on the same Phoenix Suns team as his brother after starting his career with the Houston Rockets, but he yearned for a bigger role than coming off the bench.
Then she added, "But you're not going to be there for long."
Now she had Marcus' full attention. "We?" he asked. "Or just me?"
The woman didn't hesitate. "No, just you."
Neither Marcus nor Markieff, who ...
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