Daryl Morey is as close as a ringless NBA executive can get to being a made man. On Oct. 15, he willingly left the Houston Rockets, a contender he’d built up for 13 years. After notching a whopping 13 days with his family, he was tapped to lead basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers, who have spent the past few years toeing a line between contention and implosion.
The Ringer’s Brian Phillips wrote a great article about the fantasy of this emergent American sportsman, the creative genius whose brain filters information so well as to be clairvoyant.