Ben DuBose

Keep in mind that next year, you might have some slippage from Kevin Durant.

He'll turn 38 years old.

Father time stops for no one.

Yet, Amin Thompson, Reed Shepard should both get a decent fit better, perhaps a lot better in Reed's case.

And you're going to be getting two and a half rotation players

starting level players that you don't have right now.

I say two and a half because Fred, Steven, and you basically have half of DFS right now.

So the KD, Amin, and Reed component, you know, perhaps the latter two ascending the former on the decline, and then adding the two and a half guys that are injured right now,

My contention is that your championship window, and that's before we factor in any other moves they might make.

They have this stockpile of future picks.

They can potentially sign people in free agency.

My contention is that knowing what we know right now, the window is more likely to be open next season than this season.

Would you agree with that?

Okay, so the reason I asked you the question about this season versus next season, so much of the discourse, at least on my timelines, it just overly simplifies it into, you know, two camps.

Either you want them to do something aggressively now or

Or you're fine just waiting indefinitely and punning.

And that's not the case.

The absolute worst case, we're talking about next season, the one that begins in October, seven or eight months from now.

So we're not talking about waiting until some indefinite period in the future and saying, well, we're going to sacrifice a potential run this season.

for the sake of some time in the future that may not come and all these hypotheticals.