Speaker 1: Question, can I can? I got a question by My
Speaker 1: name is Trista Creek, and I have.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: I have questions about Darryl Moury. Why won't Daryl Moury
Speaker 1: just move Ben Simmons, I've got thoughts I do. I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about this a long time now. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of speculations like why won't Darryl Mory just move on?
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to be there, Ben, He's never wanted
Speaker 1: to be there ever since this playoff debacle where he
Speaker 1: threw him under the bus, like he said, he's never
Speaker 1: playing for you again.
Speaker 2: He won't even show up, and you.
Speaker 1: Just consistently think his price and his value is higher
Speaker 1: than everybody else thinks it is. It's like, why won't
Speaker 1: Darryl Moury face what everyone is feels is so obvious, right,
Speaker 1: Like I just don't understand it, even with Joel m
Speaker 1: Bead's prime prime being wasted, right like Joel Embid's playing
Speaker 1: the best basketball we've ever seen like from him specifically,
Speaker 1: he's been the best player in the last three weeks
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and he's on the worst rebounding team.
Speaker 1: As we've talked about, he's on the worst defending team
Speaker 1: in the NBA, like everything has gone to shit around him,
Speaker 1: and they need that player that's missing. They need somebody
Speaker 1: back for Ben. And they've turned down Darren Fox. They've
Speaker 1: turned down shooters like Buddy Healed. They've turned down shot
Speaker 1: creators like CJ.
Speaker 2: McCollum.
Speaker 1: They've turned down guys in the front court that can
Speaker 1: help Joel Embiid like Demana Sibonis, guys like Miles Turner.
Speaker 1: They've turned down goddamn everyone, etc. Etcetera, etcetera. Daryl Mourray,
Speaker 1: I'll hold him on for years.
Speaker 2: I'll let him rot.
Speaker 1: That's what he said. I'll just let him rod as
Speaker 1: long as it takes. My asking price will not change. No,
Speaker 1: it's like, Darryl, you're not being logical. Why won't you
Speaker 1: be logical? Like, I just do not get it. And
Speaker 1: people are like, who you know, Joe El Embiid and
Speaker 1: Daryl moriy are aligned.
Speaker 2: I mean, why are they aligned? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Daryl Moury has always gotten close to the stars on
Speaker 1: his team, and that's actually what made the wheels in
Speaker 1: my head.
Speaker 2: Start to turn. Huh.
Speaker 1: Now we're getting reports that James Harden is open to
Speaker 1: other destinations other than Brooklyn. There were reports a year
Speaker 1: ago when James Harden was traded to Brooklyn, then his
Speaker 1: number one choice was Philly. There are reports that James
Speaker 1: Harden doesn't exactly love Sean Marks, doesn't exactly love Joe Saie,
Speaker 1: would rather be with a guy who he feels is
Speaker 1: his guy, Daryl Mourray.
Speaker 2: H So this is what I think is happening.
Speaker 1: I think Darryl Mourray is waiting and wishing and hoping
Speaker 1: and putting all of his capital like was this James
Speaker 1: Jack Jack Johnson wishing and hoping things like that.
Speaker 2: He's wishing and.
Speaker 1: Hoping and praying and putting all of his little eggs
Speaker 1: in the basket, all of his ten million dollar eggs
Speaker 1: in one basket.
Speaker 2: In that basket is a man in the baby.
Speaker 1: Blue fat suit, and he's hoping that he can get James.
Speaker 2: And I think he and James are talking. I think
Speaker 2: he and James.
Speaker 1: Feel some sort of connection because Mike D'Antoni turned James
Speaker 1: Harden into the.
Speaker 2: MVP of the league.
Speaker 1: He was a six man and then he became an MVP,
Speaker 1: and James hasn't been the same since that. All that
Speaker 1: combo has gone together. But Darryl Moriy didn't fucking turn
Speaker 1: James the MVP. Mike d'An tony turned James Harden in
Speaker 1: the MVP.
Speaker 2: D'antony's not there. Doc Rivers is not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: We know that.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think what's happening is Daryl Moury
Speaker 1: is trying to save face. Daryl Moury is letting his
Speaker 1: emotions get to him, and the emotions for him are revenge.
Speaker 1: Emotions are feeling that he was one hundred percent correct
Speaker 1: and wanting Ben gone from the beginning, because let's be honest,
Speaker 1: as soon as Darryl Mory stepped foot in Philadelphia, he
Speaker 1: was trying to move Ben.
Speaker 2: Simmons for James Harden.
Speaker 1: That's what was That was his plan all along. And
Speaker 1: because he was Hong Kong, Darryl right, Hong Kong, Darryl soured,
Speaker 1: the soured the roots of everything going on in Houston.
Speaker 1: And then it just literally was like a ball of
Speaker 1: shit rolling downhill, just getting faster and faster and faster
Speaker 1: about this squash somebody with equal matter, right, and then
Speaker 1: Houston exploded. You have a new owner that made his
Speaker 1: living selling low priced seafood and Tillman Fertitta, who I
Speaker 1: call Tillman Fortada, Tillman Fortada, Darryl Mory, Darryl Moury for
Speaker 1: a very long time, and Houston just had like basically
Speaker 1: what he has now, carte blanche, do whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: he wants, pull the trigger, green light whenever, No, hey,
Speaker 1: can I do this? No oversight, no organizational control, nothing.
Speaker 1: And then Tillman Fortitda comes in with his little shrimp
Speaker 1: fork and he's like, hey, can you run your thoughts
Speaker 1: and ideas by me? I own the team now. And
Speaker 1: Darryl Mory's like whoa, and then he goes off Hong
Speaker 1: Kong rogue and then shit goes to hell and hand
Speaker 1: basket right. So that's how that relationship sours. Mike D'Antoni
Speaker 1: gets fired. They bring in Russell Westbrook for no reason.
Speaker 1: Darryl Moriy goes to Philly, tries to get Ben out
Speaker 1: the door because he's not at all the player that
Speaker 1: he wants at all. He wants Harden, and Tilman Furtada's like,
Speaker 1: fuck you, I'm not trading you Ben Ben Simmons for
Speaker 1: James Harden.
Speaker 2: No chance, I don't care. I'll take guys that are worse.
Speaker 1: I don't even know in that Nets trade, who's there
Speaker 1: on the Houston Rockets right now, I don't think anyone.
Speaker 1: I think it was Victor Oladipo and Tory and Prince.
Speaker 1: You got guys going to Cleveland, like the trade don't
Speaker 1: make no sense. You could have Ben Simmons and they
Speaker 1: say no because that's how much they hate Darryl Moury
Speaker 1: in Houston. So Darryl Mory's like, you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: do it however I want. I'm gonna get my way.
Speaker 1: I'm the fucking man, so I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hold Ben Simmons hostage, and I'm gonna get Harden.
Speaker 2: That's what I wanted to begin with.
Speaker 1: And you know it, what's the greatest fuck you to
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets is if you still get Harden and
Speaker 1: you have to pay way less. If Harden ends up
Speaker 1: a free agent and Harden says I got my ring
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn or he doesn't, and I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna and I want to play with Joe El Embiid
Speaker 1: and I want to play with my guy Daryl Moury.
Speaker 2: Who knows. They you just do a sign and trade.
Speaker 1: You don't have to give any picks, maybe one first
Speaker 1: round pick you give Ben Simmons off, nets have to
Speaker 1: take something they can't just maybe they get Tobias Harris.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a three team trade, who knows.
Speaker 1: But if James Harden wants to go to Philly and
Speaker 1: he's telling Daryl Moray that he wants to.
Speaker 2: Be in Philly, which we don't actually know if it's true.
Speaker 1: But if that's the case, Daryl Moray is gonna wait
Speaker 1: till this free agency offseason for Harden to say no,
Speaker 1: I want to try a new destination, and then it's
Speaker 1: in their hands and then it's in their control. H
Speaker 1: That's the only thing that makes this make sense. But
Speaker 1: who knows if that's gonna even be the case, right
Speaker 1: And I promise you though, if he does not get
Speaker 1: I I am stamping my flag in this now. There's
Speaker 1: no chance that Ben gets moved before the deadline, No
Speaker 1: chance before February deadline, February whatever it is, nine, ten, fifteenth,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, changes every year. No chance Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: leaves this squad because that's what he's waiting for, right.
Speaker 1: If he's waiting for Harden, then it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: summer and maybe it's not the summer. Maybe it's February.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 1: And all I'll say is this ownership, the birdies have
Speaker 1: told me today is already tiring of this. Because I've
Speaker 1: heard what I've heard this from, like Jake Fisher at
Speaker 1: the Bleacher Report. I've heard other reporters say, listen, Darryl
Speaker 1: Moury has carte blanche.
Speaker 2: Darren Murray, I had carte blanche at Houston. He's not
Speaker 2: there anymore.
Speaker 1: Phil Jackson, they said, Oh, Darrel Mourray has Phil Jackson treatment.
Speaker 2: Phil Jackson is no longer a New York Nick executive.
Speaker 1: Your rope as soon as thinks sour, and the league
Speaker 1: turns on you, and nobody wants to do business with
Speaker 1: you anymore, and your reputation takes a hit because he's
Speaker 1: a fucking joke right now. Everybody's making fun of him.
Speaker 1: And if ownership decides like you're no longer worth that
Speaker 1: ten million dollars and all that carte blanch and power,
Speaker 1: and Joel mb decides like, you know what this is not?
Speaker 2: This is whack. I am no longer aligned. I need
Speaker 2: somebody to play with. You're gone.
Speaker 1: And I think if Darryl Moorey does not get James Harden.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a rap I.
Speaker 2: Think it's all. I think it's night night.
Speaker 1: I think it's a random consultant job with some random
Speaker 1: fledgling team, maybe in Canada, maybe somewhere, maybe in Hong Kong,
Speaker 1: who knows. Because this guy Darryl has no logic. He
Speaker 1: is operating entirely around emotion. And the problem with that,
Speaker 1: like my guy been getting really into Marvel, be getting
Speaker 1: really into Marvel. My guy Jude law Yan rog and
Speaker 1: Captain Marvel said to Danvers, who's Captain Marvel?
Speaker 2: He said, listen. Anger only serves the enemy.
Speaker 1: And I promise you all of those other Eggs executives
Speaker 1: right now are Daryl Morey's enemy. And every decision that
Speaker 1: he makes based on emotion and not logic is just
Speaker 1: digging a deeper and deeper hole that it's going to
Speaker 1: be more and more difficult for him to.
Speaker 2: Get out of.
Speaker 1: So he's got to learn, Darryl, you follow me on Twitter.
Speaker 1: You gotta learn to control those emotions, baby boy. Because
Speaker 1: the tea leaves are speaking. Tea leaves are speaking to me,
Speaker 1: and they're telling me the ownership is already sick and
Speaker 1: tired of this bullshit because how could they not be,
Speaker 1: How could they not be? You can go from genius
Speaker 1: like everybody in the league thinks you're a genius, to
Speaker 1: an unemployed nuisance in a matter of that. So make
Speaker 1: that trade, Make that trade.
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