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Posted on June 15, 2016 at 07:53 PM.

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Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey Quits

What a steaming hot mess the Rockets put together against the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 on their way to a fishing trip. A team of mismatched parts, guys who can't stand each other, selfish me-first guys playing in a basketball culture that encourages saving one's own hide by gunning for stats crashed out against a team of guys who are all for the team and the polar opposite of Rockets basketball, a team that won 73 games in the regular season and, if they can survive an injury to their superstar long enough to hold off Portland in the next round, might just claim "greatest team of all time status."

You know who's responsible for that culture in Houston? The MBA and "smartest guy in the room", the darling of the sports-nerd and buzzword set, none other than Daryl Morey. And he needed to be fired the way the Philadelphia 76ers shuffled their MBA and smart-guy idiot Sam Hinkie out the door over the course of this season.

Just so happens Morey has jumped the gun and shuffled his way back to Wisconsin, where inevitably he will start eyeing up his home town Bucks.

In the small hours of Saturday night, Les Alexander and Daryl Morey had a deep and heated conversastion. Rumors were surfacing all week that Morey tried to veto the hire of Mike D'Antoni by digging some dirt up on him to leak to the press. Alexander and D'Antoni had some private lunches aside from the official interviews with Morey and his team of basketball operations members.

Morey seen this as Alexander muddling in the basketball side of things and was not going to stand for it.

In particular after Morey's tweet in April about looking for a new defensive identity, this hire is in direct contrast with that.

I wonder what Alexander's next move now is with NBA Draft coming up next week. A new General Manager must be put in place swiftly. But in all honesty, who would want to take this job?