The Rockets have targeted Orlando center Marcin Gortat as a desirable pick-up. Whether this had been the plan all along, or whether Yao Ming's injury has forced management's hand(s), it doesn't matter. It only matters that the Rockets are seriously serious about landing Gortat, who caddied for Dwight Howard this season.How serious? Right around midnight, Houston GM Daryl Morey posted a message on Facebook and Twitter imploring Rockets fans to tell Gortat how much they love him.
Here's the Tweet:
Four minutes before midnight ET, the Rockets also let loose a love letter to Gortat on the team's official Web site. It is the top story on the Web site as of 1 AM ET. (Yes, four minutes before midnight. Hmmm. The odd thing is that the post, clearly timestamped 11:56 PM ET, says Morey rang Gortat's doorbell at precisely 12:01AM ET, which indicates that Morey potentially possesses a time machine.)
Luckily for Morey, the Rockets (given Situation Yao) have a good bit of sympathy right now. Otherwise, I could see partisan fans in L.A., Salt Lake City, Portland and Dallas using rocketsfanslovegortat@gmail.com for evil. Regardless, neat 2.0-style begging, Rockets. I hope your own big free agent (Mr. Ron Artest) isn't too jealous of the attention paid to Mr. Gortat.
Hat-tip to TrueHoop.
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Don't do it, Gortat! You'll never win anything in Houston!!!!
Not surprised at all. He's the best center on the market, really. And they could probably get him for a portion of the mid level.
I'n my opinion, losing Gortat hurts the Magic more than Turkoglu, don't let him get away Orlando.
he looks young and engergetic... BTW, does he advertise for some dating site? Seems I saw him before on the celebrities-club SearchingMillionaire (DOT)com......Fans would be very surprised if they met him there.
WE need Gortat to stay in Orlando... Who'll back up Dwight while his resting on the bench?? GO MAGIC!! :)