Nerder Mailbag + Morey Steps Down + Ty Lue's Clippers
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Nerder, Dave Dufour, Seth Partnow and Mo Dakhil take listener questions for a long overdue Mailbag. Also, Daryl Morey steps down as Rockets GM. The important impact he had throughout his tenure in Houston. Also can Ty Lue fix the Clippers?
Are bigs back?
Beating the Lakers
Rookies in the Bubble aren’t rookies
Most interesting teams for offseason
Should the league institute a minutes limit?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.2 | Coming up on today's show, we talk about Darrell Mori stepping down as general manager of the Houston Rockets. |
| 0:13.9 | And we answer some listener questions. |
| 0:18.3 | This is Nerdish, you wrote, with your host Dave Dufour. |
| 0:21.7 | With Mo DeKille. |
| 0:23.1 | Are you ready to be entertained? |
| 0:24.9 | And Seth Partnow. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to an all-new Nerder She Wrote on the Athletic InveA show. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Dave Dufour, joined as I am each and every week by Seth Partnow and Mo DeKiel. |
| 0:39.8 | Fellas, we somehow made it to the end of the season. |
| 0:43.9 | The Lakers won the title. |
| 0:45.4 | So much has happened in the last week. |
| 0:46.9 | Like, it feels like it's been about a month since we recorded. |
| 0:51.0 | A lot has happened in the last four hours. |
| 0:56.2 | I almost feel like there's too much news, but that's neither here nor there. |
| 1:01.0 | The bit of news we need to get into is right before we go to record, news came out that |
| 1:07.6 | Darry has stepped down as GM of the Houston Rockets. |
| 1:13.1 | I sort of felt like this was coming, right? |
| 1:16.3 | Like, we all know the financial implications of his tweet about China. |
| 1:22.2 | The writing has sort of been on the wall all year. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, I mean, I think even without the China stuff, I felt like, |
| 1:30.3 | you know, the everybody said it when they made the Russell Westbrook trade, right? Like, |
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