Gzus is right. In case you didn't understand him, though: it's because stat geeks treat him like a big star (Elvis).
Don't worry. In the NBA, incompetence never leaves, it just gets pushed around. This gets funnier and funnier everytime. It's also crazy how the Knicks have rebounded in the past two years, and how much of a risk they took. And that chicken and rice stand on 53rd and 6th is the ****. Although, I can tell you from experience that cablevision does not air Rocket games either.
The specific reference to "Dork Elvis" is that Morey started the Sports Analytics confab at MIT. Simmons was present for one of the conferences and saw a bunch of young analytics types (dorks in the truest sense of the word) crowding around Morey at all times treating him like a rock star. Hence the name.
"In any case, my best educated guess for how this went down: Houston has been peddling a bunch of its young guys in hopes of exchanging one for a first-round pick. They were calling around the league. They eventually got to Sacramento, at which point Petrie — still at least using the telephone, I'm told, assuming the Kings have paid the phone bill — probably mentioned Robinson's availability in a package with Francisco Garcia. Morey probably dropped the phone." That made me chuckle...:grin:
Morey has to have some undercover type relationship with the Kings, why else would they not shop him around? lol. That organization just keeps allowing us to take their good players.
Morey has got the best stuff, that's why GMs don't bother hustling for another dealer. He's got the blue stuff and no one beats the Heisenberg's cooks.
Great read just like most others that involve Bill Simmons. Man, I gotta say this Rockets team is probably the most exciting and has the brightest future since I started watching and supporting them in the championship era. It's just beyond anyone's imagination what Dork Elvis has done in less than a year. Wow ... let's give DM tenure (i.e. lifetime appointment) like colleges do to their coaches.
I disagree. He's jus as athletic and hard working as he was 3 months ago. He's just had a rough go of it in Sacramento, that's all. Our point guard was much the same under Smart but the Kings blogs all seem to say the same thing, that he was turning it around and was showing promise and that they got reamed by the Maloofs. They did. Love Murray for it.
