NBA Season/Playoffs 2025-26

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Btw, Daryl Morey canned after spending six seasons with the 76ers. Guess the yearly early playoff exits did 'em no justice, including getting swept in the second round per Shams.

I saw a thread on RealGM about Morey talking about 24 years of Morey-ball and 0 Championships to show for it. 0 Finals apperances too.

Here is the RealGM post

Daryl Morey's Moreyball system, has been in use in the NBA for 24 seasons.

4 seasons with the Boston Celtics, with Moreyball being used to judge player's performances, potential draft picks, and free agents.

14 seasons with the Houston Rockets, which included:

1 season as the Houston Rockets' Assistant General Manager, being in charge of player and roster decisions, while being the team's "de facto GM".

13 seasons as the Houston Rockets' General Manager.

6 seasons as the President of Basketball Operations, for the Philadelphia 76ers.

24 seasons in total of Moreyball, with three different teams, and in those 24 seasons of Moreyball being implemented, it has produced a grand total of zero NBA Finals appearances, and zero NBA championships won.

Remember when about 90% of US sports media called Daryl Morey a genius, and constantly claimed that the use of Moreyball was a superior method of building an NBA roster, as compared to all other methods of roster building?

It's strange, but for some odd reason, those claims from US sports media, about the unparalleled ingeniousness and superiority of Moreyball, just don't seem to be all the rage anymore.

Not sure what the 4 years of Boston is about. Is that the last 4yrs when we went 3 point mad? That we copied Morey's plan from Houston? Is that what the poster was on about?

Anyway, I am going to ignore that.

So we have 14 years in Houston + 6 years in Philly. 20 years of utilizing his Morey-ball and failing.

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Here was a good comment in defense of Morey

He's been a GM since 2008. He's 910/612 for a near 60% winning percentage.

In that time here are the franchises with more wins.

Boston.

That's it...Spurs are 2 games behind at 908.

If you want to argue he is overrated go for it I guess. But the resume is rock solid, he's been an elite GM for two decades and trying to argue otherwise is preposterous.

A winning record in 17 of 19 years and a 500 record in another is FAR from mediocre.

Below is another good take on Morey

"Moreyball" is sort of like BJJ in current MMA.

It's no longer something that gives you (much of) an edge in and of itself (exceptions exist), but if you don't have it at all, you'll sink quickly.

The philosophy of the game has been pulled fairly radically from where it was in yesteryear, and his teams have been consistently and meaningfully on the happy side of the winning continuum for a long time.

It's hard to not call that success.

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Some other good comments

I don't think you can call someone elite if you've been around that long and haven't won it all, let alone made it to a Finals.

Agreed 100%. Can't call Morey elite.

Because if you're an executive and you've spent 24 seasons without even making the Finals once, uou have failed.

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Btw, Daryl Morey canned after spending six seasons with the 76ers. Guess the yearly early playoff exits did 'em no justice, including getting swept in the second round per Shams.

I saw a thread on RealGM about Morey talking about 24 years of Morey-ball and 0 Championships to show for it. 0 Finals apperances too.

Here is the RealGM post

Daryl Morey's Moreyball system, has been in use in the NBA for 24 seasons.

4 seasons with the Boston Celtics, with Moreyball being used to judge player's performances, potential draft picks, and free agents.

14 seasons with the Houston Rockets, which included:

1 season as the Houston Rockets' Assistant General Manager, being in charge of player and roster decisions, while being the team's "de facto GM".

13 seasons as the Houston Rockets' General Manager.

6 seasons as the President of Basketball Operations, for the Philadelphia 76ers.

24 seasons in total of Moreyball, with three different teams, and in those 24 seasons of Moreyball being implemented, it has produced a grand total of zero NBA Finals appearances, and zero NBA championships won.

Remember when about 90% of US sports media called Daryl Morey a genius, and constantly claimed that the use of Moreyball was a superior method of building an NBA roster, as compared to all other methods of roster building?

It's strange, but for some odd reason, those claims from US sports media, about the unparalleled ingeniousness and superiority of Moreyball, just don't seem to be all the rage anymore.

Not sure what the 4 years of Boston is about. Is that the last 4yrs when we went 3 point mad? That we copied Morey's plan from Houston? Is that what the poster was on about?

Anyway, I am going to ignore that.

So we have 14 years in Houston + 6 years in Philly. 20 years of utilizing his Morey-ball and failing.

------------

Here was a good comment in defense of Morey

He's been a GM since 2008. He's 910/612 for a near 60% winning percentage.

In that time here are the franchises with more wins.

Boston.

That's it...Spurs are 2 games behind at 908.

If you want to argue he is overrated go for it I guess. But the resume is rock solid, he's been an elite GM for two decades and trying to argue otherwise is preposterous.

Morey had Mike Zarren?s role (Senior VP of basketball operations) from the 2002-2003 season to the 2005-2006 season.  He came on in that role a year before Ainge.  So the mediocre end of the Pierce-Walker tandem, but was fine a full 14 months prior to the Ray Allen trade.  Draft picks while he was here included Jefferson, Perkins, Marcus Banks, Gerald Green, Devonte West, Tony Allen, Justin Reed, and Ryan Gomes.  He was responsible for drafting strategy, so it is reasonable to put some of the credit and blame for those picks (depending on which one, but mostly credit when you look at the list) on him.