Claim: The Houston Rockets play basketball.

Daryl Morey -LRB- born 1972 -RRB- is an American sports executive . He has been the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association since 2007 . He is a strong proponent of analytical methods , having created the `` true shooting percentage '' statistic , and co-founded the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference . Morey 's basketball philosophy , heavily reliant on analytics , favors three-point field goals over mid-range jumpers , has been dubbed `` Moreyball '' , as a nod towards Michael Lewis 's Moneyball .