Imagine trading away the guy who becomes the franchise player of a conference rival when you have a championship team in the works. Now imagine doing it twice with the same franchise.
Good. I want to be hated again. I remember how hated we were during the Harden years vs other years. The Yao-Mac years we were always lovable. If your team isn't hated it means its no threat to other fans. A year or so ago, no one would care a lick about us, we were just some young team taking its bumps, but if we get a top 4 seed and make some noise in the playoffs you can bet people will start hating the team and that is a GOOD thing. No one even cares enough about bottom tier teams to hate them. When the last time you heard someone talk about hating the Hornets?
They hate Houston because the Rockets got the real dogs. They bark in interviews, our guys rip the ball from their hands. They not like us
Actually they sort of gave away Harden and Sengün. Spoils of riches. In economy they call that Development Aid. I mean fanbases are different from their organization which is really structured like the Boston one, top notch. Because they are not an old franchise, they have tons of younger minds working there......players and a lot of facility staff are familiar with each other, that is pretty rare. Organic as they call the whole machine. Presti is big on the human element.
"all our picks" = Topic and a likely very late 2026 1st. Still a bad trade but ultimately not very impactful to our future. You could argue that losing the 2024 pick gave the rockets the necessary motivation to instill a winning culture before we descended into Wizardville.
