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Speaker 1: emotion couldn't be masked. I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 1: I can't believe how quickly this came together. You can't
Speaker 1: ask for anything more. It's it's been a dream come
Speaker 1: true to be here today. From the moment Darryl Moorey
Speaker 1: opened his mouth during Monday's introductory press conference, you could
Speaker 1: tell the vibes were real and sincere. The former NBA
Speaker 1: Executive of the Year sounded thrilled to be the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers new president of basketball operations. I've heard Philadelphia
Speaker 1: fans of the Vest and that's what I've seen on
Speaker 1: the road when i've been here. I'm excited to win
Speaker 1: you guys over, and I know you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be tough on me, and he should. With more in place,
Speaker 1: Elton Brand locked in as general manager and Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: now the head coach, the Sixers are feeling good with
Speaker 1: a healthy Joel and Ben Simmons and a group that
Speaker 1: Doc is coaching. We feel like people are underrating the
Speaker 1: Sixers right now, but we need to go out there
Speaker 1: and prove it. I'm Brian Seltzer, and on this episode
Speaker 1: of the broadcast, we go one on one with Daryl
Speaker 1: Morning as a new era of seventy Sixers basketball officially
Speaker 1: gets underway. What's up, seventy Sixers pod peeps. I hope
Speaker 1: you're doing well. What a day it was Monday at
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers training complex in Camden, New Jersey. Listen.
Speaker 1: I am a really lucky dude on a lot of levels,
Speaker 1: but especially on the professional front. The last four weeks
Speaker 1: just to be fortunate to be back on site at
Speaker 1: the training complex for Doc Rivers press conference and then
Speaker 1: just a few days ago back there again for the
Speaker 1: introduction of Daryl Morey. A lot of rightful excitement inside
Speaker 1: the building for the Sixers with two major editions this offseason.
Speaker 1: If you follow the sport, you know Daryl Morey needs
Speaker 1: no introduction, the least of which from the likes of me.
Speaker 1: And if you're not familiar with Darryl's exceptional body of
Speaker 1: work and resume, hopefully you will be by the end
Speaker 1: of this podcast. You know, during Darryl Moore's time with
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets, where he was the last thirteen years
Speaker 1: period during which Houston had the second most wins in
Speaker 1: the NBA by my count, actually not my count Basketball
Speaker 1: Reference dot Com. I think I got this number right.
Speaker 1: Morey made two hundred forty six moves. Five of those
Speaker 1: transactions were with his new team, the Sixers, and that
Speaker 1: is where our conversation begins. I'm debating whether we should
Speaker 1: start with this, but I feel like it might be
Speaker 1: a good icebreaker. Now I'm nervous. Oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Better deal between the Houston Rockets and the seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: The Sergey Less Shook trade or the furkon Aldemir Royce
Speaker 1: White second round pick trade. Well, the serge Lists Shook trade.
Speaker 1: There's actually five of those, think just one the Sixers.
Speaker 1: I believe he's the most traded player in NBA history.
Speaker 1: I never played here. Um, you might have to give me.
Speaker 1: I remember the furkon Aldemere trade. I do not remember
Speaker 1: the whole Serageiless Shook trade. Do you have that, handy?
Speaker 1: I think it was a multi team trade. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: went a couple of different places and had multiple permutations.
Speaker 1: He never put on a uniform here. I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, since we both had seventy trades, probably a
Speaker 1: lot of them were mostly forgettable. It's funny though, thinking
Speaker 1: about you being here. It certainly feels, at least to
Speaker 1: someone who's been around the team for a bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit surreal. But then there's this under of yes, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: exactly think about me. I know, why do I make
Speaker 1: it always about myself? I have a habit of doing it.
Speaker 1: But it's like it feels like there's this familiarity that's
Speaker 1: pre existing with you coming in here. Do you feel
Speaker 1: the same way about it? Kind of? I mean I do.
Speaker 1: I mean in the sense that, first off, I'm sort
Speaker 1: of a Midwest Northeast guy, so that that feels natural. Second,
Speaker 1: I am happy for Elton and Sam and those who
Speaker 1: set things up to have to have Joel and Ben
Speaker 1: is like, you know what, why you go through all
Speaker 1: the tough seasons, and so I'm at some level I
Speaker 1: feel bad, you know, I feel like I'm the you know,
Speaker 1: you know, others have driven the car a whole way
Speaker 1: and then I just need to like bring it in
Speaker 1: right at the end. But and hopefully we do that.
Speaker 1: But um no, it's it's a great roster to work
Speaker 1: with and I love the fans, you know, So I'm excited. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you really didn't. Not just saying this because we're sitting
Speaker 1: here talking now. You sounded genuinely over the moon, really
Speaker 1: enthusiastic in your introductory press conference. What is pumping you
Speaker 1: up the most about this opportunity? I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: just I just want to win the title somehow. I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know, an opportunity comes along like this where
Speaker 1: you got a great chance and to work with committed
Speaker 1: ownership like Josh and another chance to work with we
Speaker 1: know as a championship coach and Elton is going to
Speaker 1: be one of the all time great execs in this league.
Speaker 1: And you know so, I you know it was it
Speaker 1: was an end. Then then a roster that's ready to win.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't ask for much more given the
Speaker 1: connections that you had personally and professionally with the Sixers
Speaker 1: going back a handful of years. How much from Afar
Speaker 1: when you were in Houston, were you paying attention to
Speaker 1: what was happening here? Yeah, it's my job defendions. I
Speaker 1: do pay attention more to the West. When I was
Speaker 1: in the West, Um, you know I actually would tract
Speaker 1: the East pretty close. Yeah, just because of who was here.
Speaker 1: And then obviously working in Boston for many years. So
Speaker 1: but it was mostly like, oh, I hope I faced
Speaker 1: one of those teams in the finals. So yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I definitely had an affinity. You know, I've always known
Speaker 1: a lot of the people here. So yeah, going back
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, could you have possibly vision this happening?
Speaker 1: Like what do you think you'd be doing three weeks after?
Speaker 1: You just know? I mean I actually was sort of
Speaker 1: excited to do it because you know, some good friends
Speaker 1: like Sam just went through like hey, what am I
Speaker 1: gonna do next period? And I was actually sort of
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. I did not think an opportunity
Speaker 1: would come along quickly that. You know, my good friend
Speaker 1: Jeff van Gundy, he left coaching and now we're fifteen
Speaker 1: years later and he hasn't done something yet, like just
Speaker 1: it hasn't aligned for him. And so to have something
Speaker 1: aligned quickly was like I was like, you know, so
Speaker 1: so happy, you know, because sometimes when you take a
Speaker 1: step away, you're like, will anyone you know, will anyone
Speaker 1: have interest? You don't know, right, you just don't know.
Speaker 1: So I was looking forward to that time. My family's
Speaker 1: angry with me. They they think they're like I thought
Speaker 1: you're supposed to spend time with us. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good opportunity came along, forgive me please. Luckily
Speaker 1: they're old enough they can sort of understand that something
Speaker 1: great came along. So there's got to be an itch
Speaker 1: burning within you. I gotta believe just based on that, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, burning would be understood. I mean, frankly, I've
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to, you know, get certain accolades, make
Speaker 1: it to the conference finals, get awards, all this other
Speaker 1: stuff that doesn't matter. And so, like I talked about
Speaker 1: the press conference, I'm looking only on championship probability. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's for me too. Like I really,
Speaker 1: you know, I just feel like I haven't accomplished much
Speaker 1: unless I can somehow get that done. It's funny because
Speaker 1: just in speaking with Elton over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: that's something that clearly is motivating him. Never won the
Speaker 1: title as a player, wants to get one as an
Speaker 1: exact and then Doc comes at it from a completely
Speaker 1: different perspective. He won it, but it was over a
Speaker 1: decade ago, and it's like, once you taste it for
Speaker 1: the first time, how can I get so jealous of
Speaker 1: his one though. Yea, hopefully we're hopefully we're comparing rings
Speaker 1: at some point. But now he's awesome, and he his
Speaker 1: ability to pull a team together quickly, which he did
Speaker 1: in Boston was really really impressive, And you know, I
Speaker 1: just love that he He has an approach and a
Speaker 1: style that help that helps teams win at a high level.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to go down as one of
Speaker 1: the all time great winning coaches ever, obviously with the championship.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's why I was trying to get
Speaker 1: him to Houston before, Like I just you know, it
Speaker 1: was fantastic that I got a chance to work with
Speaker 1: him here again. So if we're thinking of this next
Speaker 1: question in the vein of you narrating a sequence of
Speaker 1: events for the people out there, can you walk me
Speaker 1: for as much as you can through the timeline of
Speaker 1: leaving Houston and now here we are sitting talking about
Speaker 1: you being the president of basketball operations for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I'd have to such a whirlwind. So
Speaker 1: you know, I definitely was interested in stepping away. I
Speaker 1: thought it was the right time for everything. I was
Speaker 1: able to work that out with Houston and then when
Speaker 1: it got it now, it was like boom. I mean
Speaker 1: it was it was It was nice because you don't
Speaker 1: know how people are going to react. I had never
Speaker 1: gone through it. I imagine It's how you know, um,
Speaker 1: players often feel when when teams are calling them, you
Speaker 1: don't always know they're gonna call, right, And I had
Speaker 1: no idea. Um, but you know there are teams from football,
Speaker 1: from baseball, you know, from investment opportunities, a couple of
Speaker 1: NBA teams, and but the Sixers opportunity, they were super aggressive.
Speaker 1: Doc and Elton were like wanting me to come right away.
Speaker 1: Um and um, you know, and then Josh obviously super committed.
Speaker 1: I mean it was obviously hard to say, know with
Speaker 1: with the roster, getting to work with Doc, getting to
Speaker 1: work with committed ownership was amazing. What do you think
Speaker 1: it says about Elton that it sounds like he was
Speaker 1: one of the driving people leaving the charge on it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing I was going to say in the press,
Speaker 1: cout I didn't get a chance. But like, how rare
Speaker 1: is that that you know he's told you he only
Speaker 1: cares about winning a title. This proves it right, because
Speaker 1: you know he's just like we're gonna do whatever it takes,
Speaker 1: and I just I love that about him, and I
Speaker 1: to me like he's already on his way to be
Speaker 1: He has such a great feel that you don't really
Speaker 1: get as quickly in the job as he already has. Honestly,
Speaker 1: but in my third year or whatever he's in and
Speaker 1: the job, I was sort of stumbling around like an idiot.
Speaker 1: So so I'm so impressed by him and the fact
Speaker 1: that he has, you know, wanted me here and welcome
Speaker 1: me has been mean so much. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: roster a little bit. There's obviously two very un all
Speaker 1: stars in Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid. Ben, where do
Speaker 1: you see his game at right now? I see as
Speaker 1: one of the best up and coming players, already very good,
Speaker 1: but at twenty four can get even better. Very few
Speaker 1: players played at his level at twenty four. He usually
Speaker 1: means even bigger things are coming, you know. I think
Speaker 1: Doc is going to figure out how to utilize him
Speaker 1: even more, whether it be in transition. Obviously, his defensibility
Speaker 1: really shown through last year. I mean, if you have
Speaker 1: that as a foundation, you're always going to be a
Speaker 1: good player, because if you start with defense, you know,
Speaker 1: and then he's super skilled offensively as well. You know,
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit. What about Joe, Well, you certainly
Speaker 1: spoke highly of him in the press conference, but it
Speaker 1: really seems like he's got everything there to take this
Speaker 1: team where it wants to be. Frankly, like, I see
Speaker 1: no reason he can't be one of the all time
Speaker 1: great bigs. I mean, he's got every component. When he's
Speaker 1: on the floor. Defensively, he might be one of the
Speaker 1: most impactful defensive bigs of all time. And offensively he
Speaker 1: can do skilled things that like big men aren't supposed
Speaker 1: to be able to do. I mean, it's really fun
Speaker 1: to watch. And the fact that he's, you know, here
Speaker 1: twice a day, working and focused, is it means a lot.
Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to speak with him at
Speaker 1: all or just observe him a little bit. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: spoken to a lot of the roster, the ones that
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten too, I'm getting to today. I was
Speaker 1: trying to call them rapidly because you know, obviously we
Speaker 1: don't get anywhere without the players, so I've got to
Speaker 1: hit all them today. For someone in your position coming in,
Speaker 1: what's the message that you want to impart upon the players.
Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, we're all working together for
Speaker 1: the same goal. I think you get to the best
Speaker 1: place in the NBA by involving your players, having them
Speaker 1: feel like they're part of the decisions, part of the environment.
Speaker 1: They set, the culture, they set, the work ethic. Doc's
Speaker 1: gonna help with his leadership ability is going to help
Speaker 1: them become better leaders. But it really fits my style. Honestly,
Speaker 1: my style would not work in college or high school,
Speaker 1: where it's you know, where some great programs are sort
Speaker 1: of like here's how you do it the you know,
Speaker 1: the the X way is the way you do things.
Speaker 1: You know. For me, I'm trying to help the players
Speaker 1: figure out their best skills, their best leadership. How do
Speaker 1: we use it all together, work with Doc and create
Speaker 1: like this greater thing. So that's what I've always tried
Speaker 1: to do in Houston, and you know, I had a
Speaker 1: lot of success, just not the ultimate. And I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you, what have you learned about the
Speaker 1: balance that has to be struck between trying to create
Speaker 1: this collective being that needs to thrive, but then also
Speaker 1: their individual players were talking about here there could be
Speaker 1: a James Harden or there could be an Austin Rivers
Speaker 1: or guys in between, deep guys on the bench. So
Speaker 1: what have you learned over your career about how to
Speaker 1: manage the individuals that make up the whole. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a challenge. Obviously. I worked with a head coach a
Speaker 1: lot and take a lot of their guidance. I've I've
Speaker 1: been extremely lucky to work with great head coaches Doc
Speaker 1: when I was in Boston, jeff E Gundy, Rick Autam,
Speaker 1: and Kevin McHale, Mike D'Antoni. I've been lucky, like all
Speaker 1: those coaches have all stayed four years or more with me.
Speaker 1: I work heavily with them to figure out how to
Speaker 1: and learn how to touch those players in a way
Speaker 1: where they they get excited and motivated to come to
Speaker 1: work and motivated to win. Um. And I've taken a
Speaker 1: little bit from each each person. And you know one
Speaker 1: thing that Doc seems to have one of the best
Speaker 1: feels that is, yeah, how to how to inspire these
Speaker 1: guys to like want to come in and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, basically crushed the day that day. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: so I lean I lean on the coaches evily, frankly, Um,
Speaker 1: I try not to, you know, unless they're seeking me out.
Speaker 1: I try not to get too too UM two too.
Speaker 1: You know in the coach's business, you and Doc did
Speaker 1: have that brief overlap in Boston. After that. How much
Speaker 1: did you guys stay in touch quite a bit obviously.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a son at Houston who UM
Speaker 1: did was awesome for us. UM. You know, it's a small,
Speaker 1: tight knit community in the in the NBA. Doc is
Speaker 1: really tight with Chris Paul, who we had. So there's
Speaker 1: lots of over laps, Yeah, lots of overlaps. Do you
Speaker 1: think there's any misunderstood parts about your philosophy? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I think people throw out that the analytics tag
Speaker 1: words so often, But do you think there's anything that's
Speaker 1: misunderstood about the way you do things? Yeah? I would
Speaker 1: say the main thing is, you know, I use data
Speaker 1: to make great decisions. The job is really the same,
Speaker 1: It's been the same since Red arbucked, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, make great trades, free agent signings and draft picks.
Speaker 1: It's really that decision making and then set the right
Speaker 1: tone for the organization. Data helps you like make sure
Speaker 1: you're not fooling yourself right, you know, like like Sam
Speaker 1: did many years ago. He looked and he said, look,
Speaker 1: we're not close to winning. We need to take this
Speaker 1: path right now. We know we have two star level
Speaker 1: players in twenty four and twenty six. That is enough.
Speaker 1: As long as you can get everything together and the
Speaker 1: right mix and the right focus, you can win with that.
Speaker 1: So data allows you ask the right questions. But people
Speaker 1: think like that we use data to like make the decisions. No,
Speaker 1: we use data to ask the questions like you know,
Speaker 1: we you know, we think you know, um, Joel's post
Speaker 1: ups are great. Well, let's check the data. Okay, they are,
Speaker 1: they are great. Let's let's go to that. How do
Speaker 1: we how do we look at how to make that better?
Speaker 1: Things like that. So, and does ultimately come down to
Speaker 1: just trying to get the best out of the best
Speaker 1: talent and all the talent that you have. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it really just comes down. Yeah, you take your players,
Speaker 1: figure out what they do best, push them to get
Speaker 1: better at the things that they can get better at.
Speaker 1: And uh, and it's not a dogmatic thing. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of prescription or proscribing. It's, you know, take
Speaker 1: what they're best at and put it on the floor
Speaker 1: and That's why I love Doc too. He's got a
Speaker 1: history of molding what he does around the players. I
Speaker 1: know going back that this was an industry and profession
Speaker 1: that you sounded like desperately wanted to get into. From
Speaker 1: writing teams letters and just trying to break down, yeah,
Speaker 1: try to do a little bit. I feel like I
Speaker 1: had to get a haircut and do some research. Those
Speaker 1: are the two things to risk risk at all, get
Speaker 1: a beard trim. So I think everyone, you know, everyone's
Speaker 1: got a little bit of quarantine follical situations going on
Speaker 1: the interne um. Did you always think that this was
Speaker 1: something that you could do, Like it sounded like you
Speaker 1: really wanted to get into it, but you do always
Speaker 1: believe that this was something you could do. Yeah, folks,
Speaker 1: Ically I had the analog Facebook is what existed when
Speaker 1: I went to Northwestern in ninety one and someone dug
Speaker 1: it up, and yeah, my Facebook thing was about how
Speaker 1: I wanted to how I wanted to be a GM someday.
Speaker 1: So I always hoped I could. As you mentioned, from
Speaker 1: ninety six when I was at Stats Sink until two
Speaker 1: thousand and two when I got a job with Boston,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get anyone do give me a chance. So
Speaker 1: did a whole bunch of other jobs during that period.
Speaker 1: So was there a moment you can pinpoint or a
Speaker 1: deal that you were involved in, a decision you made
Speaker 1: that gave you the confidence that this was the path
Speaker 1: in the field for you to be in. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think I think Sam mentioned it. I think
Speaker 1: the toughest and biggest trade we made was trading Ray
Speaker 1: for Austin out for Kyle in the middle of a
Speaker 1: playoff run. That took a lot of conversations leadership, ownership,
Speaker 1: buy in, coach, buy in, player, buy in to say
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our starting point guard and move him
Speaker 1: along in the midst of winning fifty plus games. That
Speaker 1: that deal and then having it work out, I think
Speaker 1: gave me a lot of confidence. We're gonna land the
Speaker 1: interview plane shortly. Try to do some off the court stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm ready. What do you know about the city of Philadelphia?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I've watched the show Always Sunny Philadelphia, which
Speaker 1: I think probably doesn't help me too much. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: that's like Louis Scala learned English from friends, So I'm
Speaker 1: guessing I've I've got this warped view now I have
Speaker 1: the view for my wife, who's from New Jersey, that
Speaker 1: isn't always the most positive. There's a lot of rivalry
Speaker 1: there sometimes. Although she was in the part of Jersey
Speaker 1: Freehold the boss is hometown, which is you know, I
Speaker 1: guess part Philly, Partney Arc. So what do I know?
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, I mean I studied the Founding Fathers,
Speaker 1: not in school, but like just and not from Hamilton either.
Speaker 1: Like so Ben Franklin's my guy actually, so a lot
Speaker 1: of like actually, my leadership style comes from reading a
Speaker 1: lot of his stuff. So he was you'll see I
Speaker 1: hang back a lot. You know, I'm trying to get,
Speaker 1: you know, the information out of everyone else before I go,
Speaker 1: because if I go first, then you know, can set
Speaker 1: the tone and people can sort of line up. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the best info, you want to
Speaker 1: make people comfortable to give you feedback, tell you when
Speaker 1: you're being an idiot, and give you that feedback before
Speaker 1: you start to blabber on, which I can do, by
Speaker 1: the way. So but yeah, so not much. I'd say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just admit I don't know a ton about
Speaker 1: Philadelphia except you have great fans. I would agree with
Speaker 1: you on that. Yeah. I think it's around eight hundred pages.
Speaker 1: The biography on Ben Franklin. I admittedly have not read
Speaker 1: all of it. I tried to get through some of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not as a committed reader as I should be.
Speaker 1: But he seemed to me like he was kind of
Speaker 1: a glue guy. He just he made things actually knowing
Speaker 1: what he did, because he would fall asleep in the
Speaker 1: meetings and stuff like that. I'm not gonna fall asleep
Speaker 1: in the meetings, Josh, trust me. Door Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I know he was the one off to France to
Speaker 1: get him involved, and yeah, I know he's it's anyway.
Speaker 1: So is he from Philadelphia? Is that true or no? No,
Speaker 1: I thank you. I think I don't know see an
Speaker 1: adopted area where it came to be exactly? Yeah? Um food,
Speaker 1: I think that's just a prerequistion. Like Houston, we have
Speaker 1: a problem. The equivalent is talking about cheese takes here?
Speaker 1: Is that true? That? Like, it's just as annoying. I'd
Speaker 1: say to identify as an outsider if you come in
Speaker 1: and write off the bat and being like where do
Speaker 1: I go to get? Yeah, where's cheese takes? Yeah, cheese whiz?
Speaker 1: Or not. Yeah, So are you a fan of food
Speaker 1: scenes in general of the cities that you travel to? Well? Food,
Speaker 1: as people can see, it doesn't always miss me sadly,
Speaker 1: so uh so, yeah, I do like food, ideal tight meal,
Speaker 1: if we dive deeper into this topic, ideal meal or
Speaker 1: cuisine I do love. I do love sushi. Which how
Speaker 1: is the sushi scene? I'm not sure if it is
Speaker 1: Philly known for that. I'm not sure if there are
Speaker 1: some places I don't know if we can say, like
Speaker 1: on record, and maybe that would seem like it's too
Speaker 1: much of an endorsement, but like a good steakhouse though,
Speaker 1: that's probably my best So yeah, I think the city
Speaker 1: can offer Yeah both, that's good. What is Philly known
Speaker 1: for food? Was? I actually don't know. I think right
Speaker 1: now it's just known for being a food destination in
Speaker 1: the Northeast, Like it's it's something that is a It's
Speaker 1: an affordable city. You know, you can go either four
Speaker 1: dollars signs or one dollar sign and get a really
Speaker 1: good meal. Is that from your Google search? The number
Speaker 1: of dollars? What is zagging? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Zagat does dollar signs, but it's it's got
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. Like there's a lot of creativity,
Speaker 1: a lot of different influences. That's been the unfortunate part
Speaker 1: of it, the pandemic. It's like a lot of the
Speaker 1: restaurants make it hard by it. You mentioned the Boss.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying do you like the Boss? But music?
Speaker 1: Watch what's playing on the Darren Moory playlist or well,
Speaker 1: I like, I'm big into musicals, so now this will
Speaker 1: just lose all Philly fans. But I do love I
Speaker 1: do love musicals, So that's that's sad but true. Seventeen
Speaker 1: seventy six to Musical Great Great, especially with with data
Speaker 1: was the lead. Any Authors who really inspire you to
Speaker 1: be from Philly? No, just anything? Yeah, authors that inspire me?
Speaker 1: I do love Bill James, the famous architect of a
Speaker 1: lot of baseball stuff, but surprisingly good author solve the
Speaker 1: Kennedy assassination. Well not really, but like he thinks he
Speaker 1: has the highest probability um authors. That's a good one. Books.
Speaker 1: I do love Shara. You know Killer Angels was about
Speaker 1: the Civil War. I love that book so off the
Speaker 1: top of my head. So the last what you're binging
Speaker 1: slash interested in type question podcast do you have any
Speaker 1: favorite pods? You know, I have a strange hatred of
Speaker 1: podcasts interest. I'm sorry since this is probably start of
Speaker 1: this will be used for a podcast, but I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear more. I like when people take the time
Speaker 1: to curate it into something I can read quickly. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm big on efficiency and podcasts and no offense
Speaker 1: to Bill Simmons to go like eight hours and there's
Speaker 1: like three nuggets, you know, I'm not sure. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and make this an efficient podcast, even
Speaker 1: though I think I failed. I think I failed. I
Speaker 1: think that's all. I think this is the mid range
Speaker 1: shot of podcasts, So we got to finish strong. We've
Speaker 1: got to make it a winning clutch mid range jump shot. Um,
Speaker 1: what's your timeline like right now? On the job front? Mean,
Speaker 1: it's got to be crazy. The draft is coming up
Speaker 1: in about two weeks. I mean, drinking from the fire hose.
Speaker 1: I'm real happy. You know, Elton has a great staff
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna be leaning on. He's brought in some
Speaker 1: great people, and Peter and Prosper and Jamir had some
Speaker 1: great people here, you know, Vince Rosman. I mean they've
Speaker 1: They've just got a really great group. Obviously, we're doing
Speaker 1: a lot of prep in Houston that hopefully I still
Speaker 1: remember some of it. And but it's a sprint. It's
Speaker 1: drinking from the fire hose right off the bat, whether
Speaker 1: it's the draft or free agency. How do you go
Speaker 1: about setting Maybe you don't even do this, but is
Speaker 1: there a general criteria that you follow for the type
Speaker 1: of player holistically that you want to bring in. I
Speaker 1: like to tell everyone who were taking before we do it,
Speaker 1: and then and just see what happens. Listen, it's a
Speaker 1: great strand. No, I mean, I think the best thing
Speaker 1: in the drafts is the exact opps. It'll just be flexible.
Speaker 1: You know, Chris Wallace a mentor of mine in Boston,
Speaker 1: he's a very smart basketball guy. He told me there's
Speaker 1: always another basketball player. Like in the draft. All these
Speaker 1: bets are actually pretty similar, and so you got you
Speaker 1: gotta make some judgments between them. But the worst thing
Speaker 1: that happened often is you get locked into a certain thing.
Speaker 1: All right, cool, and we can end on this type
Speaker 1: of note. So you're wearing a Black Lives Matter face
Speaker 1: mask when you came out here to go up on
Speaker 1: the press conference stage for the interview. You've spoke in
Speaker 1: the press conference about the importance of you using this platform,
Speaker 1: the League using this platform. Are they counting my votes?
Speaker 1: INSI has someone checked Twitter? I hope. So I think
Speaker 1: there's one more ruling that has to be made later today,
Speaker 1: still still going okay, but speak to that a bit
Speaker 1: like just especially in the current climate win right now,
Speaker 1: how important is it to foster and inclusive environment, an
Speaker 1: environment of empowerment. Well, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: tough things in the world right now, and I'm generally blessed,
Speaker 1: and so I recognize that. So whenever I can help,
Speaker 1: I think I've been big on the ESLU. That's been
Speaker 1: my big, my big sort of cause and free speech,
Speaker 1: civil liberties in general. I gave you my largest amount
Speaker 1: of money to them to help with voting. Actually, so
Speaker 1: it's sort of ironic that the thing that I helped
Speaker 1: have happened is now what they're trying to toss in Houston.
Speaker 1: So that's got me a little angry right now. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think voting machines, voting infrastructure, disenfranchisement, all
Speaker 1: those things are really important to you know, to focus on,
Speaker 1: and so anything involving civil liberties. I'm I'm I'm really
Speaker 1: strongly behind. Do you have thoughts on a message on
Speaker 1: what you would say to people regardless of what happens
Speaker 1: on November third, Because listen, that's one part of this process.
Speaker 1: We might not know the outcome until days or weeks
Speaker 1: beyond that. But regardless of what the outcome is, is
Speaker 1: there something that people can take from this time where
Speaker 1: it seems like there's such a call for change moving forward?
Speaker 1: I would say, whatever whatever happens, I believe in America.
Speaker 1: I believe in our infrastructure. I think our infrastructure has
Speaker 1: been pretty damaged, but it's stronger than one short period.
Speaker 1: By and large, people are We have more great people
Speaker 1: than not, and you know, I think our institutions will
Speaker 1: stay strong well. Put Darrel, Welcome to Philadelphia. Thanks, thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks so much. Appreciate it. From Ben Simmons to Joel
Speaker 1: and b to Ben Franklin and seventeen seventy six the musical.
Speaker 1: A lot of good stuff in there for Daryl Morey.
Speaker 1: Hopefully learn more about him as a person as a
Speaker 1: basketball executive from the chat. We'll appreciate him being so
Speaker 1: generous with his time on the day he was introduced
Speaker 1: on Monday. Be a on the lookout in the feed
Speaker 1: here on the seventy six ers podcast network for additional
Speaker 1: bonus episodes from Monday's press event, we'll have a few
Speaker 1: one on ones with Doc Rivers, Elton Brandon, Josh Harris
Speaker 1: coming away as well, and in the not too distant future,
Speaker 1: we'll launch our draft coverage as we speed towards Draft
Speaker 1: Day twenty twenty, which is on November eighteenth. I'm Brian Seltzer.
Speaker 1: Talk to next time. Take care,