The Sixers rolled into this summer riding high following a 52-win season and their first playoff series victory since 2012. The organization was finally ready to shift fully from Asset Collection mode to Fortifying a Contender mode, with head coach Brett Brown making noise in his exit interview about the team’s desire…
The Rockets let Luc Mbah a Moute walk yesterday, ostensibly because they didn’t want to pay the luxury taxes that an extra $5.3 million would have cost them, when they could just pick up a ring-chasing veteran—maybe washed Carmelo Anthony?—at the minimum. But Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta swears that’s not true! In…
Probable free agent Dwight Howard continued his soul-baring redemption tour, sitting down with ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan for an extensive interview. Anything about Howard that you’re interested in—his relationships with Stan Van Gundy, Kobe Bryant, and James Harden or his exits from Orlando, L.A., and possible exit from…
The Rockets pulled out a win—even if the bench reacted like they were upset they now have to push back their flight to Cabo another couple of days. But after the game, GM Daryl Morey was sore about a couple of plays that went uncalled, and could have been outright dangerous.
Dwight Howard was much closer to being traded at the deadline than previously reported, according to a probably reliable source: Dwight Howard.
There once was a time when TNT's Inside the NBA could be counted on to be the only sports studio show worth watching on a regular basis, but things have been trending downhill lately. Case in point: Last night's brain-dead discussion about basketball analytics, during which the collective ass-showing by those involved…
Chuck said that the Rockets and Suns had the two worst defenses in the league. Per NBA.com, they're 6th and 16th respectively.
So does that make the players...nah, nevermind.
Daryl Morey won his own charity ping-pong tournament and played "All I Do Is Win" while celebrating his victory. It's good to be Daryl Morey. [SB Nation]
Daryl Morey believes that Royce White just might have been the worst first-round pick of all time.
The daughter of Rockets GM Daryl Morey apparently made this video with her friends screaming at Dwight Howard to come to Houston. Maybe this gives the Rockets the edge over the other teams vying for Howard. These kids and Howard probably have the same level of appreciation for fart jokes.
Via the Twitter of Daryl Morey—God bless him, he has a sense of humor about the whole thing—comes this scorecard from his season of fantasy football. Daryl Morey is the GM of two teams: the Houston Rockets (a basketball franchise) and the Morey Eels (a fantasy football franchise). One of the jobs, he's supposedly very…
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article today welcoming new Sixers GM Tony DiLeo into the fold, sort of. Mostly, the column responds to the (straw man) critics that argued DiLeo's hiring "wasn't sexy enough," and who wanted "the newest thing—the analytic —that guy who would go all Billy Beane on the organization."…
Mitt Romney is not a really popular guy, except in the Cayman Islands. Lots of people like him because he's not Barack Obama, and lots of people like him because his party's platform aligns with their personal views, but no one really seems to like Mitt for his essential Mittness. But Daryl Morey, the Houston Rockets…
The Joke That Started It All
Shortly after 9 a.m. Friday, in a big gray conference room in a big gray convention center, 1,500 people—mostly white, mostly male, mostly clad in business suits—roar with laughter. Jeff Van Gundy, the former Knicks and Rockets coach and current ESPN analyst, has just cracked wise. Jeff…
