Tilman owns the Rockets. Morey is an employee of the Rockets. Bosses typically don't have to answer to anyone or answer for anyone. It's just the way it is.
The NBA won't let the Rockets win a championship if Tilman is saying these kind of things. Oh boy.. Kerr is overtly liberal (at least socially) and the NBA lets him get away with being the smuggest buffoon in the room since he goes at Trump. I suspect a long season of bull **** for the Rockets. For the first time, I wish Morey kept his mouth shut.
And Morey has the freedom to go somewhere else. If you treat your best employees in a way that contrasts with your own actions, don’t expect them to hang around. Smart people aren’t automatons and if that’s what the owner wants, say hello to mediocrity or worse.
Maybe move to China if you want to be dominated so much breh This is amoral cowardice on the part of Tillmam, as i previously stated, in pursuit of more dollars he doesn't even need. How many luxury steakhouses does one guy need to be happy? He answers to me as a (at least for now) free American citizen free to speak his mind. Shut up and listen, as a great man once wrote. There's no point in having FU money of you're going to be a soulless lickspittle to it...but, whoop there it is.
Morey was always out the door when his kids got out of school. Wait till he rebuilds the Warriors to get really depressed.
First line = lolwut? What does that even mean? Second line = What do you mean by "amoral cowardice?" It's like you went into the dictionary and decided to string any two words together. Third line = Yeah, I'm sure your opinion matters to him and that he definitely knows who you are.
By amoral cowardice i mean Tillman's "not political org" bullshit and backpedaling. He's a standard issue greedy plutocrat and his politics reflect that. Let's be real. If Harden tweeted "free Tibet" or Westbrook tweeted "stop Uighur genocide" do you think the Tillman would give a **** about the millions of people being referenced for even a millisecond or immediately start calculating his potential losses of his utterly redundant fortune He definitely knows who you are - if there's anything that somebody with 10 figure net worth needs more than incremental billions it's anonymous bootlickers carrying water for him on internets.
Tilman is just being like Trump. See Trump has all the wealth in the world at his disposal, but in order to sell a few billions more of weapons, he had no problem getting cozy with MBS, knowing fully well how sick of a murderer the guy really was. It's the american way, dont we all know that by now?
In his first public comments since the interview with ESPN, Fertitta, whose team opens the season on Thursday night against Milwaukee, agreed to provide written answers to questions through a spokeswoman. He said he “never considered firing or punishing Daryl” in the wake of Morey’s Twitter post. Fertitta also said that he needed to initially distance the Rockets from Morey because, “I felt it was important to make the distinction between Daryl speaking as a private citizen and Daryl as a representative of the Houston Rockets.” He added, “We have never commented on another country’s foreign policy.” Then it was back to silence. Fertitta declined to answer several follow-up questions, including whether he wished he had handled anything differently since Morey’s post. The Rockets said Morey was not available for comment. [...] Fertitta, despite having rushed to distance himself from Morey’s comments, escaped much of the glare. ...But Fertitta has also donated about $45,700 to political action committees associated with Cornyn and $35,500 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the maximum allowed in 2019. Fertitta also donated to Cruz’s Senate re-election campaign last year. A spokeswoman for Cruz declined to comment, and a spokesman for Cornyn did not respond to an email. Fertitta’s political activity also has included business-minded pragmatism. He recently led an unsuccessful campaign for Houston to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention, which likely would have been a financial boost for Fertitta’s Houston-based enterprises. Milwaukee was chosen instead. These efforts have helped make him a friend of the political class rather than the target of its criticism. [...] Peter K. Taaffe, a lawyer with the Houston-based Buzbee Law Firm, said Fertitta has “a good ability to give his input when it’s important.” Taaffe and Fertitta are on the Board of Regents for the University of Houston system; Fertitta is board chairman. Taaffe said the sensitivities regarding China might have been too risky for Fertitta’s typical approach. “Those types of relations are incredibly delicate for the most professional diplomats and politicians,” Taaffe said. “My only observation is that I’m not surprised that Tilman has handled it in — I think — an appropriate way.” Turner, the Houston mayor, who has known Fertitta for at least 20 years, also defended Fertitta, saying that he has had little choice besides thinking carefully before speaking further. “There are a lot of dynamics involved,” Turner said. “In a situation like that, I think it is prudent to be more patient and not just be quick to comment.” But Fertitta had been willing to speak on politics, particularly domestic issues, before — and without distancing the Rockets from his views. Just weeks before Morey shared the Hong Kong image, Fertitta told Yahoo that socialism “scares the hell out of me.” In 2017, he told CNBC that President Trump was doing a “great job.” That same year, he criticized San Francisco for requiring some businesses to set aside money for employee health insurance, raising costs for his restaurants in the city. Soon after buying the Rockets, which he did in 2017 for a then-record $2.2 billion, Fertitta weighed in on another debate about free speech and athletes stemming from football players who were kneeling at games during the national anthem — much to the ire of President Trump, Cruz and many Republicans. “The N.B.A. has a rule, and the rule is you stand for the national anthem, O.K.?” Fertitta told Forbes. “And the N.B.A. has told us these are the rules, and so we’re going to follow the rules at the Houston Rockets.” Asked whether he would be comfortable with his employees publicly voicing their political views in the future, Fertitta declined to comment.
