Daryl Morey is still seeking a cornerstone player to build around.

Over the summer, Morey signed Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik to sizeable contracts and selected Royce White, Terrence Jones and Jeremy Lamb in the first round of the draft.

“We’re always looking for opportunities to upgrade our team,” Morey said. “We really like that we have Jeremy [Lin] and the other young players that we have and the other young players improving over time.

“We did feel like, where we were at, every player needed to have star potential — like we feel like most of our young guys have — or give us the [salary] cap flexibility and the room to go sign a big-time star if needed.

“We moved pretty much everyone to do that, and I think that’s why we had to make a tough decision on Luis Scola [amnesty clause] and some of the other veterans we didn’t bring back. But we felt like it was the best decision.”

In addition to amnestying Scola, Morey traded Courtney Lee (to the Celtics) as well as Samuel Dalembert (Milwaukee) and Kyle Lowry (Toronto) to clear cap space and perhaps attract a superstar in free agency next summer.

“You can’t win the championship without having a very high-level player,” Morey said. “We didn’t have that. We’re hoping our young guys can grow into that or we have the cap room and tradeability to add that.”