Houston Rockets are about to have a garage sale

Westbrook, Harden ,rivers and PJ tucker seem to be wanting out.

The only person I would want out of that mess is probably Robert Covington. But you never know, they could be a viable trade partner for Jrue.

The problem with Westbrook is kind of like what Melo was going through a few years ago. He plays a style of basketball which is entirely detrimental to a team's ceiling unless you are ridiculously great, and he's not good enough at it anymore to counteract the negative aspects that style brings. Combine that with a stupidly massively salary and you have one Please God No trade item ready to go.

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The only person I would want out of that mess is probably Robert Covington. But you never know, they could be a viable trade partner for Jrue.

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The problem is that they have basically nobody who could make up Jrue's salary without biting into guys like Westbrook and Harden themselves, who are pieces I would absolutely not want at all. Then they also have no future picks, either. And also all their good roleplayers are old, which in itself isn't a death sentence but when you cant package them with picks or anything that's an issue.

Not really interested in Houston.

I would love to do Lonzo for House and Covington if they fully blow it up and get a bunch of other young pieces for Harden and Westbrook and just go full re-build.

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I would love to do Lonzo for House and Covington if they fully blow it up and get a bunch of other young pieces for Harden and Westbrook and just go full re-build.

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Absolutely, I would do that in a heartbeat.

The Hornets have emerged as a potential suitor for Rockets All-Star Russell Westbrook, sources tell our NBA Insider @ShamsCharania. pic.twitter.com/8hineXP3AN

— Stadium (@Stadium) November 12, 2020

Remember when I said a while ago that it feels like a team might well be on the border of making a years-long mistake?

I would love Tucker

Kevin O'Connor reports that the Bucks are looking to move on from Eric Bledsoe, and have offered him to several teams. They’re also in pursuit of Rockets forwards Robert Covington and P.J. Tucker.

Changes are being made to the top teams in the East.

— Alec Sturm (@alec_sturm) November 12, 2020

Big lol if Bucks end up with RoCo

The Knicks are on the short list of viable trade destinations for Houston's Russell Westbrook, league sources say

If the Knicks prove willing to absorb the $130+ million left on Westbrook's contract to make him their centerpiece, there is a trade to be made

They have weighed it

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 13, 2020

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The Knicks are on the short list of viable trade destinations for Houston's Russell Westbrook, league sources say

If the Knicks prove willing to absorb the $130+ million left on Westbrook's contract to make him their centerpiece, there is a trade to be made

They have weighed it

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 13, 2020

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Knicks love expensive contacts . LOL. Never ends well for them.

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Knicks love expensive contacts . LOL. Never ends well for them.

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I think teams, especially teams that have been bad for a long time, often feel the rush of time closing in and make stupid moves to try and be good instantly. In reality, sometimes you have to just accept that you've gotta do it the slow way, properly.

If the Knicks had just hired a semi-reasonable coach a few years ago and then just made smart, well researched drafting choices, and put money into a legitimate development staff, they might be on the rise by now: about to add another top 10 pick, starting to coalesce into a team, adding smart veterans here and there to round out the youth and provide some experience, etc.

Instead, they're just on the lookout for every big name and throwing all of their eggs into that basket so that when it falls through they have to scramble to make something happen, and it really shows the cracks in their foundations.

This is the downside of being in a big market. Often, we hear about all the good things about being in a big market, but there are downsides. With more eyeballs and media attention, you feel the pressure to be relevant. Not good, or great necessarily, but relevant. Your courtside seats cost more for one game than a Pels courtside seat for an entire season. You have to sell suites. You have very powerful corporate partners that you cant risk losing.

Its a business at the end of the day, and fans have the luxury of talking about 3 or 5 year plans and slow builds - which if they work admittedly are better for business. But when you are in month 6 of that 4 year rebuild and you have to call people to try to re-up on season tickets or suites that cost millions per year or mutli-million dollar corporate sponsorships, and on top of that, everyone in the building is miserable because you just lost 20 of 22.....it aint as easy as it is to type on twitter

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This is the downside of being in a big market. Often, we hear about all the good things about being in a big market, but there are downsides. With more eyeballs and media attention, you feel the pressure to be relevant. Not good, or great necessarily, but relevant. Your courtside seats cost more for one game than a Pels courtside seat for an entire season. You have to sell suites. You have very powerful corporate partners that you cant risk losing.

Its a business at the end of the day, and fans have the luxury of talking about 3 or 5 year plans and slow builds - which if they work admittedly are better for business. But when you are in month 6 of that 4 year rebuild and you have to call people to try to re-up on season tickets or suites that cost millions per year or mutli-million dollar corporate sponsorships, and on top of that, everyone in the building is miserable because you just lost 20 of 22.....it aint as easy as it is to type on twitter

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Knicks have been worse than terrible for 20 years and they're still the 3rd most valuable sporting club in the world

They're kinda immune to the blow backs of not winning

It also doesn’t help that Tilman Ferttita isn’t rich as much as a launderer of the mobs money.

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Originally Posted by MichaelMcNamara

This is the downside of being in a big market. Often, we hear about all the good things about being in a big market, but there are downsides. With more eyeballs and media attention, you feel the pressure to be relevant. Not good, or great necessarily, but relevant. Your courtside seats cost more for one game than a Pels courtside seat for an entire season. You have to sell suites. You have very powerful corporate partners that you cant risk losing.

Its a business at the end of the day, and fans have the luxury of talking about 3 or 5 year plans and slow builds - which if they work admittedly are better for business. But when you are in month 6 of that 4 year rebuild and you have to call people to try to re-up on season tickets or suites that cost millions per year or mutli-million dollar corporate sponsorships, and on top of that, everyone in the building is miserable because you just lost 20 of 22.....it aint as easy as it is to type on twitter

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Part of the problem is that doing it in this rush-job, short-term style doesn't actually help.

If you suck, then you suck. Making sensible, well thought out, step by step movements to improve your team isn't flashy, but as long as you're smart it's a good way to know you won't suck in 5 years.

Trying to throw bad money after good, trying to buy up every bad contract or popular name, relying on the promise of huge FA signings that are unlikely for any team to make, etc, almost guarantees that you'll still suck in 5 years. Now instead of having 5 down years while you rebuild, you've had 5 bad years and no clear route to anything better for the next 5 years as well, so you're going to suck for 10 years.

The quickest way to do anything is to do it once. Do it properly, and it takes as long as it takes and then it's over. Do it poorly and you'll be back on square one, having to try it all over again, until you get lucky.

I freaking called it lmaaoooooo https://t.co/KXP1IoJMnF

— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) November 17, 2020