I still remember watching that fateful game that made Carroll Dawson and the city of Houston collectively have an orgasm.
That was the first domino 2004 - Rockets trade Cato to Orlando (w/ Stevie Franchise and the Cat) for Juwan Howard (oh, and Tracy McGrady) 2007 - Howard was traded to Milwaukee for Mike James 2008 - Mike James (and Bonzi Wells) traded to New Orleans for Bobby Jackson 2008 - Bobby Jackson (and Donte Green + 25th pick) traded in 3 team deal to Sacramento/Portal for Ron Artest (who left as a FA, so got nothing). 2008 - HOWEVER, Rockets selected Nicolas Batum w/ the 25th pick BUT exchanged picks w/ Portland who took Joey Dorsey and Darrell Arther 2010 - Rockets trade Joey Dorsey (and Carl Landry, Larry Hughes) to Kings for Kevin Martin 2012 - Martin and Jeremy Lamb traded to OKC for James Harden 2020 - Harden traded to Nets for Victor Oladipo 2021 - Oladipo traded to Miami for Kelly Olynyk and a bag of chips So there you have it. Kelvin Cato nets us Kelly Olynyk and costed us Nicolas Butum and James Harden. Thanks Kelvin Cato for ruining my life.
I won't stand for Kelvin Cato slander because 1. he makes up the "-to" in Steddinotayto and 2. those 12 blocks in that preseason game is worth a Batum and 3 Hardens.
We got another Cato? SMH. He will be terrible. He'll need to resist the urge to swat the ball down during a pop fly. Hopefully he can get that urge out of his system during pre-season.
