Daryl Morey

The Houston Rockets will not sit quietly as the Golden State Warriors steamroll the rest of the NBA. General manager Daryl Morey is going to make sure of it. His plan? Well, we’ll we’re not really sure. But he definitely has one. He told ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe so: “We are used to long odds,” Morey [...]

Insofar as job stability exists in NBA front offices, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has long seemed secure in his position. Over the years, he has had carte blanche to conjure cap space through salary dumps to chase free agents. He has enjoyed the freedom to be hyper-aggressive on the trade market. He has [...]

What, you didn’t think the Houston Rockets were going to be quiet during NBA free agency this summer, did you? Of course not. Why would you? Not only is the salary cap exploding, giving most teams plenty of money to spend, but Houston’s general manager, Daryl Morey, is notorious for chasing superstars at every turn. [...]

Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey thinks former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie got a raw deal before resigning from his post in April. Here’s what Morey said of the situation during an appearance of “The Vertical Podcast with Woj,” via Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com: I wanted to take hits for him. The reality [...]

There is no feasible scenario in which Dwight Howard will be on the Houston Rockets next season. This isn’t about the team’s courtship of Mike D’Antoni, a coach Howard never truly meshed with while on the Los Angeles Lakers. It is not about his mysterious relationship, or lack thereof, with fellow superstar running mate James [...]

The Houston Rockets’ lackluster followup to last year’s Western Conference Finals appearance will not cost general manager Daryl Morey his job. Owner Leslie Alexander has made that much clear as the team prepares to square off with the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the playoffs, per Mark Berman of Fox 26 in [...]

Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey does not live in a fantasy world. He knows the Rockets are bad, that they are underachieving, and he takes full responsibility for their transgressions. From ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins: “It’s been a tough year for everybody, not just me but also [Rockets owner Leslie] Mr. Alexander, the coaches, the [...]

This sounds about right. During a front office panel at the Sloan Analytics Conference, ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan decided to press Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey about the future of Dwight Howard. The exchange was, predictably, awkward and awesome and, on some level, telling. Here’s how it went down, as relayed to us by SI.com’s [...]

Dwight Howard? On the Boston Celtics? Surely not. Or maybe so. From the New York Daily News’ Frank Isola: Meanwhile, the Celtics have engaged the Houston Rockets in talks about a possible deal for Dwight Howard, the Daily News has learned. Howard can opt out of his contract this summer, and considering his back and [...]

Rival NBA general managers know not to bother the San Antonio Spurs when it comes to talking turkey on one of their key players. Which is so Spurs. Here’s what Yahoo Sports’ Bobby Marks, who spent ample time as an assistant general manager with the Brooklyn Nets, wrote in his trade-deadline primer for San Antonio: [...]