Houston Rockets Daryl Morey (Photo by Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images)
A Tennessee senator probed NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s handling of Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey’s Hong Kong fiasco.
Although Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is known for making headlines for basketball reasons, Morey and the Rockets were involved in the biggest sports scandal of the past year, for something that had very little to do with the sport. Prior to the official start of the 2019-20 season, Morey found himself amid a global firestorm, as he became the face behind the now infamous tweet regarding Hong Kong and China.