Ben DuBose

And then the worst case scenario is he gets traded now, but he goes to, you know, a Golden State, a San Antonio, somewhere like that.

And to preview one of our upcoming shows, we've got Michael Shapiro of crime.com coming on, I believe Monday, which will be about 72 hours before the deadline or really about 60 hours.

So I think it's midday on Thursday.

And I was talking to Michael at the game last night.

We were at Toyota center for Spurs rockets.

And,

He was telling me, you know, he agrees it's not happening by the deadline with the Rockets, but he would not rule out the possibility this summer.

And Dave, you can follow up with him on Monday if you want, but I think he looks at it very similarly to the way you do in that for a lot of reasons, it doesn't make sense now.

The Rockets in a perfect world want this longer window.

They want the sustainable contender, but...

If this thing goes south, if they underperform in the playoffs, and especially if one of your big guns sort of fades under the lights for one reason or another, or perhaps, you know, Shingun or a man, someone like that underachieves because of, you know, the way an opposing team chooses to defend them or the matchup or whatever the case may be.

then yeah, they're open to revisiting.

We saw the Rockets change course.

They talked all last year about loving the Core 7.

And after the way the Warriors series went, something clearly changed.

They went for KD, but before they went for KD, there was talk at the beginning of the offseason that the Rockets were most intrigued by Giannis.

And ultimately, they didn't go down that road.

Giannis didn't get traded at all.

They traded for KD.

But I bring all that up to say,