Daryl Morey is stepping down as general manager of the Houston Rockets, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Morey has been with the Rockets for 13 years, and the decision to leave appears to have been his own. Wojnarowski reported that Morey approached owner Tilman Fertitta about leaving the team after the Rockets were eliminated from the NBA playoffs.
There was a significant question last year about whether Morey would even last the season as Rockets GM. In October 2019, Morey posted a tweet in support of the protests in Hong Kong. That threw NBA-China relations into chaos, with the cancellation of numerous sponsorships and China yanking the NBA off the air.