How Uber Explains the Warriors vs. Rockets Series

Houston general manager Daryl Morey sold his car and now takes Uber everywhere. He applied the same way of thinking to build the Rockets into maybe the only NBA team that can beat the Warriors.

Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, doesn’t own a car.

He realized several years ago there was a smarter way for him to move from one place to another than the way he’d always done it. And that’s when he decided to sell his Lexus SUV. He stopped driving. He started taking Uber everywhere.

It might sound almost unfathomably...