So, the musical that Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey co-wrote sounds interesting.
The longtime GM, famous for lending credibility to the NBA’s statistical analytics movement a decade ago, is apparently a ferocious fan of musical theatre. Encouraged by his fervor, Morey teamed with playwright Mickle Maher to cobble together a basketball-themed plotline titled ‘Small Ball,’ as the Houston Chronicle’s Hunter Atkins recently reported:
The premise: The people of Lilliput, a fictional island nation that appears in the 1726 novel “Gulliver’s Travels,” want to join an international basketball league. But to be competitive enough for that, they import “Michael Jordan,” a man who turns out not to be the NBA Hall-of-Famer but happens to have the same name.