Ben DuBose

But in terms of what actually makes sense for this season and beyond, I just don't see that moderate move unless it's in tandem with two or three other things being worthwhile.

I think it's a big move, which I haven't heard anything of at all, or something really small.

And by the way, I've

I mentioned this earlier, but I don't think the Rockets view Kobe White as a fit personally beyond just the long term.

I just don't think they see the basketball fit as ideal or at least what it would be worth in terms of, you know, not just the assets you'd give up, even if they're seconds, but even, you know, Dorian Finney-Smith or Steven Adams, someone like that, that they really like on basketball.

the contracts that they're on for not just this season, but future years as well, because there is a pretty tricky financial picture for this team as they try and navigate the next few years with these young guys getting onto their second contracts.

So I tend to think that it'll be a smaller deal largely for matching salary reasons.

I just don't think they want to sell low on guys they truly believe in for next season.

I think it's even harder to move Clint Capella now that you don't have Steven Adams.

And so if you use Clint Capella as matching salary, unless it's in a move for a big, well, then you create another hole, even if it's a small hole.

It's another hole nonetheless.

And when you're talking about trying to win a title this year, any deficiency potentially matters.

So it's just, it's tough to see where the matching salary comes from.

I could maybe see trades, you know, 5 million or less where you could cobble together a couple of minimums and, you know, send them elsewhere and maybe take in a $5 million a year type player into the Fred and Vliet exception.

Yeah.

The Sixers, for example, they're trying to duck the luxury tax.

By the way, Paolo, I don't think anybody respects that Sixers win over the Rockets anymore because they were using a cheating Paul George.

So let's turn that into a win.

The Rockets are really 32-16 because nobody respects or counts that Sixers win when they were playing a cheating Paul George.

At least that's the way I've been assured it works with the Astros.