D-Mo to GM in Italy for the duration of the lockout, perhaps through next season

DarkHorse · Jul 1, 2011

Hours before the NBA locked out its players on Thursday, Rockets general manager Daryl Morey took a plane to Italy expecting to join his new team.

Morey said he expects to accept an offer from Benetton Treviso to begin working the phones in Italy 18 to 22 hours a day for the duration of the NBA lockout and perhaps through next season.

Just five years after he joined the Rockets as an assistant general manager, Morey left Houston on Thursday to resume his passion in Treviso.

“I still have a contract with Houston,” Morey, the hardest working general manger in professional basketball, said. “They told me if I want to leave in the middle of the season when the team that took me, Houston, wants me, they would let me go. That will be no problem. I'm only here in case anyone wants to trade Treviso a superstar for some marginal role players or some former first round busts.

“That’s why I’m happy, and a little bit sad. The situation is very tough right now. I don’t really want to go away from the team. I’m not happy about that. That was one of the greatest things that happened in my life, that this team hired me. They really supported me. I appreciated all the fans and all the staff that was working with me. I really feel bad about what is happening right now.”

Morey said he would consider remaining with Benetton throughout next season, depending on input from the Rockets.

Most top International teams are expected to offer their top contracts to general managers that can sign without a clause that would allow them to leave when the lockout ends, an option Morey might consider.

Danny Ainge of the Boston Celtics is currently in negotiations with Virtus Bologna, while Montepaschi Siena is said to be in pursuit of Pat Riley of the Miami Heat.

“I think it is better to work with some team, to get more calls and more experience, more toughness, more energy and more toughness, than to do nothing for the next year or so,” Morey said. “That is most difficult thing, to sit in my office and not make phone calls.”

During the lockout, however, he will not have an option to work with the Rockets, returning instead to Treviso.

“I want to be here, but it’s not my option,” Morey said. “But if the team sees I cannot make phone calls, why stay and spend one year if there is a lockout.”
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