Has ANY GM, Player, or Owner in NBA History Manipulated the Media as Adeptly as D. Morey?

[Wargames]

overpay for Linsanity in order to have a gaping hole at the PG position brehs

Man Morey thought he was the fukking man making those poison pill contracts for Lin and Ask.... Now he can't even give them away

 

[JLaw]

powerful thread. Harden-Lin-Howard is one of the most fraudulent "core"s I've ever seen.

demonize midrange jumpers when guys like Jordan, Duncan, Wade, and Dirk lived in the midrange, brehs. let me know when an analytics-driven team wins a chip

Simmons and then Deadspin gave a certain brand of fan a weird, shallow condescension that I usually observe with too cool for school music kids. They want to feel like they're out in front with their opinions and "get it." Which often leads to losing track of the bigger picture. And committing to a narrative and stubbornly refusing to walk it back.

Morey, Hollinger, and Simmons have spawned a new breed of basketball-reference fiends who think they're Pat Riley because they play 15 fantasy leagues. shyt is disgusting.

 

[Saint1]

I forgot dude could've gone to Dallas. Mavs are 2-1 over the Spurs right now. With D12 just standing with his hands up and passing to Dirk they could be 3-0

 

[MikelArteta]

Analytics and money ball don't wib

 

[ExodusNirvana]

"Only thing we're shooting in practice are layups and 3s," starting point guard Patrick Beverley explains. "We don't like midrange," Garcia and Beverley say in unison.

 

[Broad Street Bully]

Slimbo Slice

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Try living in this city, breh. Everyone here is beyond retarded when it comes to the Rockets (and Texans - but that's another story). I'm an Orlando Magic fan living in Houston. Having Dwight Howard come to Houston and hearing all these fans trying to tell me he's the best center in the league & how Hakeem will mold him into an offensive juggernaut nearly 10 years after he's been in the league working with Ewing and Kareem already

I even had a Rockets fan tell me, with a dead serious tone in his voice, Patrick Beverly is a top 10 PG in the league

 

[Walt]

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Once again, dude has outsmarted (see played) himself but will still have dikkriders in the media contend he won the offseason by getting rid of Asik and Lin..........yet not a gotdamn thing to show for it. Fraud

 

[MikelArteta]

Instead of paying 800k this year for Parsons he's paying 15

Analytics!!!

Once again, dude has outsmarted (see played) himself but will still have dikkriders in the media contend he won the offseason by getting rid of Asik and Lin..........yet not a gotdamn thing to show for it. Fraud

 

[Walt]

What y'all have to understand is that in the wake of Morey completely crapping the bed this offseason, and heading into his 8th season as a genius GM with exactly 3 playoff appearances and just 1 series win on his record, when he's most vulnerable to justified criticism and people questioning what the hell he has ever won for his supposedly brilliant wheeling and dealing and utilization of advanced statistics and unique methods of measuring player value...

Grantland just published this:

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-best-way-to-understand-daryl-morey/

An apologia that anticipates the justified criticism and tries to undercut it by acknowledging it, on some Eminem in 8 Mile shyt. The conclusion the author reaches? It's crucial to understand that no matter how things work out, no matter how little the Rockets ever have to show for all his "genius" maneuvering, Daryl Morey is... Chris Paul. And you wish he was your GM because he's awesome!

Fam! The shamelessness! The manipulation. His personal publicist couldn't have written a more transparent and slanted fellating. The most obvious aspect of Morey's undeserved reputation is this: he grants access to the media, and in turn they spin and protect his narrative. His own talking points have become their own. Specifically Bill Simmons, who Morey is directly in bed with. This is probably the most absurd profile of Morey every penned. And that's saying a lot.

 

[duckbutta]

This dude basically traded Asik (which will make the Pelicans A LOT better) Lin (bye bye asian money) Chandsome ( I'm going to kill Morey for letting this pretty muthafukka come to my city...told my wife she can't even drive down I-35 when basketball season starts) , and a number 1 pick...for...the same player he signed to a similar deal 5 years ago...and then traded after 1 year for courtney lee.

A clown at the center position
All time WOAT defender at the shooting guard position
No big man to take any pressure off Plight Coward
Lurch as your coach
Morey running the team like he has the 8th, 14th, 19, and 25th pick in the office fantasy draft...

Which up and coming western conference teams ends Houston season with a buzzer beating 3 this year? I think it's the Pelicans if they stay healthy

 

[XII]

Was ...... was this article real?

 

[RickyGQ]

This dude basically traded Asik (which will make the Pelicans A LOT better) Lin (bye bye asian money) Chandsome ( I'm going to kill Morey for letting this pretty muthafukka come to my city...told my wife she can't even drive down I-35 when basketball season starts) , and a number 1 pick...for...the same player he signed to a similar deal 5 years ago...and then traded after 1 year for courtney lee.

A clown at the center position
All time WOAT defender at the shooting guard position
No big man to take any pressure off Plight Coward
Lurch as your coach
Morey running the team like he has the 8th, 14th, 19, and 25th pick in the office fantasy draft...

Which up and coming western conference teams ends Houston season with a buzzer beating 3 this year? I think it's the Pelicans if they stay healthy

You forgot no real option at pg

 

[Trip]

Simmons and then Deadspin gave a certain brand of fan a weird, shallow condescension that I usually observe with too cool for school music kids. They want to feel like they're out in front with their opinions and "get it." Which often leads to losing track of the bigger picture. And committing to a narrative and stubbornly refusing to walk it back.