Daryl Morey Quotations

The product is the team, the market is Boston and competitive responses are fairly muted. You sell most of your tickets to diehard Celtics fans and there isn't much price elasticity in terms of other sports teams or entertainment options.

If we have a hot Lakers game and I want to package it with four other games on the fly, now we can easily find seats that are open across four games.

Without a visual sense of who was coming into the building and where they wanted to sit, it was like playing chess without a chess board. You could play chess with written notations in Excel, but it makes a big difference if you can actually see the demand and the revenue trends.

I can't do anything without the ball so when I don't have it I have to go get it!

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

I lead verbally, not by example.

I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

The reason that opportunity exists is because the ownership groups buying teams are very different than in the past. The franchise is their primary asset, and they come from backgrounds with an analytical focus such as venture capital, private equity, and management consulting. In the past, sports franchises were secondary assets in the portfolio of individuals who made their money in industrial-based businesses.

I am very excited to be joining Carroll Dawson and the first-class basketball organization at the Rockets. My base of experience provides another perspective toward the common goal of everyone who works for Carroll, winning a championship for the fans of Houston.