Daryl Morey

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Daryl Morey was named the team’s Assistant General Manager on Apr. 3, 2006. Morey will serve in this capacity under current General Manager Carroll Dawson through the 2006-07 season before assuming the role of General Manager.

Morey comes to the Rockets after serving three years as SVP Operations for the Boston Celtics. With the Celtics, his responsibilities included the development of analytical methods and technology to enhance basketball decisions, such as the draft, trades, free agency and statistical advance scouting for the coaching staff.

Prior to his time with the Celtics, Morey worked as a Principal consultant with an emphasis on sports at The Parthenon Group, a leading strategy consulting firm. While at Parthenon, he led the Joe O’Donnell/Steve Karp Boston Red Sox acquisition team and the current Celtics ownership group acquisition team. In addition to Parthenon, Morey has been a technology lead at MITRE Corporation, which is a top defense industry advisory firm that develops systems to aid national security decision making across the intelligence community. Morey was also a statistical consultant with STATS, Inc., the industry pioneer in the use of sports statistics highlighted in the Michael Lewis book Moneyball.

Morey holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science with an emphasis on statistics from Northwestern University, as well as an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has published over 10 technology strategy articles in CIO and other publications. Morey also serves as the professor for the MIT Sloan class, “Analytical Sports Management,” with class contributors such as Bill James, Danny Ainge and sports agent, Arn Tellem.

Morey grew up in a small town near Medina, Ohio. Married for 10 years, he and his wife have two children, ages six and four years old.