[C19fan]

The Sports MSM loves the NBA. The NBA owns ESPN lock stock and barrel since ESPN way overpaid for NBA broadcasting rights.

[dsrtsage]

Just basketbarr, not an important sport like vorreybarr

[Chainmail]

Laughin’ my butt off: all they ever care about is money and liberal politics - and they’re losing big time.

[max americana]

lol Morey is an awesome dude. How one twitter post can destroy a felon league..

[jmaroneps37]

Yes and isn’t fun to watch?

[Hebrews 11:6]

Here is what Bill James said about Morey's boldness two years ago during his Naismith lecture:

I have had a very fortunate life, as an adult, and I do not have any regrets. But if I were to say that I had any regrets, what I would have to say is that I regret that I have not done more to plant my ideas in various places. I have not done so because I have not had the courage to believe in my ideas as much as I should have done. One of my good friends is Daryl Morey, the General Manager of the Houston Rockets, who is profiled in Michael Lewis’ new book, The Undoing Project. I have known Daryl Morey since he was in college, but, in a form of talent blindness, when he was in college I had no understanding of his talent.

One of the things that makes Daryl special is his willingness to bet on his ideas, his willingness and his ability to plant them in the soil and bet on them to grow. About 12 or 13 years ago he asked me to speak at a conference at MIT. The first conference was just a few classrooms and a few speakers, all friends of mine, speaking in one of those weird buildings at MIT with the funny-looking architecture and the roofs that leak. It’s just been a few years, but the MIT sports conference is held every year; now it’s a huge deal with thousands of people who attend every conference, dozens of speakers, dozens or hundreds of exhibitors. That’s Daryl’s idea, planted in the soil and grown into a big deal. Daryl and his friend Jessica Gelman.

I e-mailed Daryl last night about something unrelated to any of this, a favor for a friend, and he e-mailed back that he was at the KU game in Chicago, watching the Jayhawks play. Daryl now is funding and staging a play, a musical called "Small Ball"; my wife and I are going to go down to Houston in April or May to see the play. It’s an idea; he has bet on his idea to succeed and planted it in the soil. I would never have had the courage to do something like that.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

Brooklyn Nets vs. Los Angeles Lakers exhibition game in Shanghai still gonna be played?

[airborne]

Adidas makes more money a year than the NFL and NBA combined.

And Nike makes more than Adidas.