{"id":137722,"date":"2020-03-03T21:41:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=137722"},"modified":"2020-03-03T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:41:18","slug":"morey-covington-helps-everyone-on-the-team-in-particular-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/morey-covington-helps-everyone-on-the-team-in-particular-westbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Morey: Covington helps everyone on the team, in particular Westbrook."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets gm Daryl Morey said that he traded for Robert Covington because the team with Clint Capela wasn\u2019t good enough to win a championship. Then he praised the former Minnesota forward for his impact on the team, and in particular on Russell Westbrook.<\/p>\n<p>Via<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalmanAliNBA\"> Salman Ali<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Daryl Morey: &#8220;We actually thought it would work with Capela and it was working. It just wasn&#8217;t working good enough to win the championship. So once we saw how that didn&#8217;t work, then we thought we had to make another move.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Says the trade also gives Houston future flexibility. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7WI2VHGyd4\">pic.twitter.com\/7WI2VHGyd4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salman Ali (@SalmanAliNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalmanAliNBA\/status\/1234869463775948801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Daryl Morey: &#8220;The biggest reason for the trade was to get Covington and he&#8217;s actually been even better than we thought&#8230; Not only how good he is, but how much he helps everyone on the team, but in particular Russell Westbrook. The driving lanes for him are super important.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P6O2l764WF\">pic.twitter.com\/P6O2l764WF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salman Ali (@SalmanAliNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalmanAliNBA\/status\/1234867897828286467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockets are fourth in the Western Conference with 39 wins in 60 games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[3391,553,3257,2277],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-137722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-daryl-morey","tag-houston-rockets","tag-robert-covington","tag-russell-westbrook","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137722"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=137722"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=137722"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=137722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}