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All right, we're getting to the Russell Wilson and doing one second. It's really good. We will enjoy it.

Wanted to talk quickly about Darryl Mori who stepped down as the Rockets General Manager.

It's been there since 2006 was running the team since 2007 and presided over some really good

Rockets teams. A team that, you know, he inherited Yao Ming and Trace Immigradi and they got to

pretty deep in 2009 second round lost to the Lakers in seven and then Yao fell apart. They had

to rebuild that and he was able to rebuild on the fly. He made the famous hard and trade.

Somehow landed Dwight Howard somewhere 2013 when it seemed improbable that a team like Houston would

end up with a free agent superstar, which Dwight was at the time. They came pretty close in 2015.

I don't think they were going to beat the Warriors, but they got to the Western finals.

And then in 18 and 19 went toe to toe with those great Warriors teams. In 2018, you know,

this is the kind of league it is. You need some luck. Chris Paul broke down game, game five after

they, I think went up three, too. Yeah. And he got hurt at the end of the game and it's a great

what if Darryl came on the Book of Basketball podcast. We talked about that Rockets team.

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