What games have you been watching? boring? Maybe you can explain to me why 20+ games were nationaly televised?
The reason T-Mac is interested in coming to Houston is to play with Yao. Hypothetically, even when the salaries don't match, you trade Yao for T-Mac and T-Mac is gone the next year ... possibly back to Orlando!
After four years of futility, why do we still believe SF will turn into the franchise player down the road? T-Mac, SF & Cat in a run-n-gun team? You gotta be kidding me. We'd be leading the world in TOs. No, thanks. If it takes Yao to get T-Mac, that trade serves no purpose at all.