JULY 17: Following up on his Monday report, Stein tweets that the Sixers sought and received permission to meet with Morey, but the Rockets GM decided to stay in his current situation.
JULY 16: The Sixers failed in an attempt to lure away Daryl Morey from the Rockets and take their GM job, Marc Stein of the New York Times tweets.
Philadelphia was keenly interested in Morey, which shouldn’t come as a surprise since he was recently voted the league’s Executive of the Year for the way he shaped Houston into a championship contender. A Sixers spokesman refused to give any details to Stein on their GM search (Twitter links).
The Sixers have been in the market for a top executive ever since Bryan Colangelo resigned under pressure over a Twitter burner accounts scandal in which inside information was divulged and negative comments were made about players, coaches, and former executive Sam Hinkie.
Head coach Brett Brown has been serving as the interim head of basketball operations since Colangelo’s resignation, making final decisions on the draft, trades and free agency.
Morey’s contact with the Rockets was extended last year through the 2021/22 season prior to the sale of the team, Stein notes. Morey, 45, has been the Rockets’ GM since May 2007, a year after he was hired by the organization as an assistant GM.
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Lol wut? After they did Hinke dirty they has the audacity to hire away Morey? Laughable.
you mean after the NBA made them fire Hinkie
Colangelo is the one they did dirty.
How? He also should of been fired for the debacle of a trade to get fultz everyone but him knew it was bad. And then the handling of Okafor to lose all value for him.
Crappy Hinkie draftee
Okafor failed his physical.
you have mental problems, bryan
Can I get an amen??
Get your own gm stinxers.
You’re so consistently unoriginal with this…
psh freaking Suckets fans
Iverson. He will go all in and bet the house on his team.
I mean, he did help start BIG3. That’s not the worst idea in the world. But I wouldn’t recommend it, and I don’t think he’d be interested in the job anyways.
Trades Fultz for some gin n juice
Well Kevin McHale is available, but Sixer ownership is useless and incapable of thinking of Kevin being possibly their next GM
Would be a good teacher for Embiid.
McHale would be great and it would help tremendously in bringing back credibility to the Sixer organization
He was SO BAD FOR EVERYONE. He gave away Garnett for free and missed STEPH
You gotta be kidding. What credibility does McHale have? He was a terrible GM. Outside of drafting KG and swapping Mayo for Love, he has fallen flat everywhere else. He hired/fired Dwayne Casey in 4 months, made a fiasco of the joe smith signing and subsequently forfeited THREE 1st round picks, traded Brandon Roy for Randy Foye, traded KG to his good ole boys in Boston for peanuts, and a number of misfires with lottery picks. Sixers ownership has made good moves when they are allowed to work independently. The process yielded two potential superstars and a wealth of assets that makes everyone in the league jealous (except maybe Boston). You have no clue lefty
Yes, take McHale. He was horrible in Houston.
New ownership loves More. Unless something drastic happens, he’s going nowhere.
Hinkie should have been the named the Sixers GM for life as soon as the NBA made the attempt to force him to be fired.
Did he have had an “out” in his contract in the event of sale of the team? NBA GMs (and coaches) aren’t college basketball coaches. When they’re under contract, they aren’t just free to move to another team. They’re not even free to speak with another team without permission. For a lateral move, it’s totally customary to deny permission.
Would have been a major coup for the Sixers.
Houston was always a contender with Olajuwon, MUGSSY BOGUES, Yao Ming, etc, etc. Don’t see how Morey gets all the credit for adding ‘The Big Flopper’, AKA James Harden, AKA Vlade Divac with balls & beard. Capela. OK. CP3 only came because of thee above.
They won’t be in the conference finals again this year.
Go place a big bet on that. Bet your house. Bet your retirement. And you’re gonna lose it all.
Give it up, Sixers.
All in all Sam Hinkie needs to come back & that is that.
McHale was a great player, but not a good HC or GM, is the way it is.
Man this orioles fan, cannot you go back to baseball & stop hating Philly, what more credibility you need to have when the team is the favourite for the NBA finals. What a plank you are.
all he does is go after the sixers on here with zero knowledge.
So Houston granted them permission. That’s interesting to say the least.
maybe tillman not 100 percent behind morey.
Or maybe he was just being civil and doing Morey a courtesy of allowing him to interview.
I scrolled through the site very fast and I thought it said Daryl Money. That would be an awesome last name.