[Rockets.com] How the team deals with trade rumors?

Hayesfan · Jan 29, 2011

To Read Or Not To Read
How Rockets players and coaches handle life in the information age

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DALLAS - The information is everywhere.

Turn on your computer, fire up Google and a whole world of information – and misinformation – is right there at your fingertips.

For sports fans this is a golden age. Stat heads can discover previously hard to get data or showcase their own at any number of sites. Fantasy fanatics can find up to the minute injury updates from their favorite news source. And for those ravenous souls starving for the latest rumors, gossip and innuendo, Twitter is a godsend with its unending updates that flash through every second.

So the fans are in good hands. But what of the players and coaches, you know, the people whose very livelihoods are laid bare and played out beneath the microscope which tightens its focus and perpetually peers ever closer to their day to day existence? To be sure, the vast majority of professional athletes in this country are well compensated for their time in the spotlight. But that compensation doesn’t make the white-hot glare burn any less fiercely.

This time of year in the NBA the pressure on nearly everyone associated with a club can be overwhelming as the league’s trade deadline comes ever closer. The rumors fly fast and furious as reporters do their best to feed the insatiable appetites of fans desperate for the next morsel of information which might bring hope or heartache to their favorite teams. And while the trade winds swirl around them, the players, so accustomed to expertly controlling their fate on the court, suddenly come face to face with the reality that they are largely powerless in terms of dictating their lot off of it.

A decision, then, must be made: dive headfirst into the ocean of information in an attempt to read the tea leaves yourself? Or opt for an “ignorance is bliss” approach while taking care of your business, accepting the fact that some things in life are simply outside the realm of your control?

Those were the questions Rockets.com posed to several members of the team this week in an effort to get a better feel for how they handle the chaos that often awaits them the second they walk off the court. Their answers were frank and forthright, revealing a keen understanding of the business, an appreciation of the stakes involved and a knowing nod to the world in which they live.

(note: on this particular subject, management is forced to maintain a somewhat different perspective than the view shared by many of the players and coaches since the executives are often the ones pulling the strings. In their world, knowledge is power so, quite naturally, they have to harvest as much of the available information as possible. Or, as Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey put it: “We have to pay attention to everything that's out there. If we didn’t it would be like us working on Wall Street and not reading the newspaper.”)
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You can click on the link to get to the rest... there is a section on Rick Adelman, Kevin Martin, Shane Battier, Ish Smith, Luis Scola and Aaron Brooks.

The bit from Luis wasn't necessarily a surprise, I think we all knew that the trade rumors affected the team last season.

BimaThug · Jan 29, 2011

I'm Ron Burgandy?

The Real Shady · Jan 29, 2011

They go home to their mansions and lay in a pile of money while they wonder where they are going to play next.... If they really care.

Hayesfan · Jan 29, 2011

wow... quality responses there... I expected better of you both.

DCHAMP · Jan 29, 2011

ooooo omg where will they end up....if they get traded they make millions if they dont they still do.

At this point i dont care if the whole team gets traded..the only thing the rockets are consistent at is losing

Shaud · Jan 29, 2011

Some probably wouldn't mind getting traded

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