Daryl Morey was asked by Ethan Sherwood Strauss of ESPN during the TrueHoop Podcast whether he had any concern about making James Harden's MVP case "so vociferously if that can be seen as reflective negatively on other aspects of the team."

Morey has been quite openly campaigning for Harden's MVP candidacy in the media.

"I'm glad you asked that because that's another piece of frickin hypocrisy we have to deal with," said Morey. "Here's the reality, I'll make an analogy: every team gets asked about how involved the owner is. They're either say their owner is involved or they're lying. there's really no other answer. The reality is owners buy teams, they buy them for a reason, they're all involved in their teams in a very significant way. So they're either telling the truth or lying.

"When teams say they're not campaigning for their guy, their either being up front about it like us or they're lying. Or they're basically feeding it to their local beat guy. They're making calls behind the scenes. There's not a single team that doesn't do it. It's complete horeshit."