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It's been widely reported that the Houston Rockets are a team that intrigues Dwight Howard. The Rockets might even rank ahead of the Bird-rights-owning Los Angeles Lakers as the Mavericks' primary competitors for the perennial All-Star big man. He...

Sam Hinkie wants the 76ers to use the Moneyball-type of thinking popularized in baseball to build a championship team in Philadelphia.

Houston Rockets reserve Carlos Delfino is out for the rest of the playoffs because of a bone fracture in his right foot that will require surgery.

Amin Elhassan takes a look at what's next for the Houston Rockets after being eliminated from the 2013 playoffs.

Story | Conversation | April 29, 2013

For basketball dweebs, the last few weeks have been Morey-palooza. Eat Morey. Sleep Morey. Listen to Morey-house Morey-wave Morey-trap. Find a remote island, call it New Mauritania, and govern by conch-shell possession and small-sample-size offensive...

Beckley Mason explains how the Houston Rockets went from Western Conference also-ran to one of the league's most exciting teams and players in the playoff picture.

Fernando Medina/NBAE/Getty Images When Dwight Howard left Orlando, the Magic's bean counters found other trees to shake. A caricature of how NBA teams use analytics could be an unshaven Daryl Morey sitting alone in a laboratory feeding statistics t...

This past week Grantland visited the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and boy are our brains tired. After two days of presentations and panel discussions, we've got a lot to share. So, without further ado, here are a bunch of podcasts an...

BOSTON -- Five years ago, San Francisco 49ers fans weary of losing might have cringed seeing team executive Paraag Marathe representing them on a "Revenge of the Nerds" panel put on by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Marathe himself might h...

After another deadline steal, Daryl Morey's plan may finally be working. Plus: a surging Bobcat, his pouting teammate, and the underrated Nene.

The Rockets recently found the superstar they have long sought, in James Harden. Deals for Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik are looking good. They just won a monster game against the Thunder. Leslie Alexander recently said he'd extend Daryl Morey's contract....

Steve Mitchell/USA TODAY Sports Take a peek at the data provided by SportVU and you'll see the Heat in a whole new way.It was Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey who once said, "Someone created the box score, and he should be shot." The numbers used i...

Amin Elhassan says from a purely basketball perspective, Houston Rockets rookie Royce White's

Story | Conversation | January 16, 2013

The Houston Rockets suspended first-round pick Royce White for "refusing to provide services" required by his contract on Sunday.

On the November 7, 2012, episode of Pardon the Interruption, Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon interviewed Dork Elvis, a.k.a. Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey. During the interview, Kornheiser asked Morey the following questions: "Is there a specific sta...

Rockets rookie Royce White will meet with Rockets general manager Daryl Morey to discuss his situation with the team.