It has been countless months when Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban released numerous slandering statements against Houston Rockets saying that the general manager Daryl Morey management with the team is unattractive. For several months Morey did not bother to respond but it seems like the GM has had enough.
Among Cuban's retort to Rockets were when he deriding Dwight Howard's decision to choose Houston, to hiring Rockets executive Gersson Rosas as GM only to have him resign and return to Houston months later, to stealing free agent Chandler Parsons with a maximum contract.
This time Morey has something to say "I think [Cuban's] pissed that we went after Dirk [Nowitzki] in free agency, however unsuccessful it was. We've been pretty good, and I think he's doing a smart thing to take on a rival."
The Rivalry between both team has been escalating. He said "But let's be clear: If the money's equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time. For Dwight [Howard], I just don't think it was a hard choice between us and Dallas. If you want to win, you're going to want to join our organization. We have a first-team All-NBA player in his prime [James Harden]. They have an enormously talented superstar [Dirk Nowitzki] but he obviously isn't 24 years old."
"The choice was pretty obvious between the two teams. Dwight is the smart guy in this."
The latest barrage of words coming from Cuban was when he said that Morey does not look at his players chemistry and has relied mostly on merits of math.
Morey replied to this saying "I completely reject it. Our teams have had great chemistry, and it's something we believe in. Hey, if Mark believed so much in chemistry, he wouldn't have busted up a title team for cap room. He's trying to reunite a lot of those people now, bringing back the center [Tyson Chandler] from that title team. Maybe he's got some chemistry religion recently."
"He's tripled his analytics staff. If he's equating analytics with not caring about chemistry, well, he's tripling down on it. I think he's smart to paint a competitor in a negative light, but none of those statements are lining up. He says that we're the team that you sign with and then we will trade you, when that's what he said he would've done with Dwight."
"We don't care about chemistry, but he busted up a championship team for what he hoped cap room could do."
