Ben DuBose

And so if you sack today's game off...

with Monday's game off and that'll give him a full week between games and I think if there's one thing that that you should learn from watching Tari East in the last few games I think it's pretty clear that he came back a little too early from his ankle sprain in January and he's had consistent issues ankle sprains are so easy to linger so even if it's minor I think the way the Rockets view it his sprain happened late Thursday in Orlando and so you give him this game off

Monday is a game in Washington against a bad Wizards team.

They should be able to win regardless.

And then you don't play again until Thursday at home against the Warriors.

That will give Jabari a full week off.

And hopefully that's enough that he can put it behind him and it doesn't linger like what's happened with Tari the last few games.

So I think that's what's happening there.

It's nothing alarming.

It's just I think they see this as a spot in the schedule that, hey, we can sneak him a few days and then hopefully he comes back against the Warriors and it's good the rest of the way.

No, I'll just tease to Monday's show.

We've got Michael Shapiro of Kron.com joining us.

So he'll have some perspective potentially on buyout names, because by Monday, which is March 2nd, we'll know who is and isn't out there.

And so we can, you know, if the game goes the way I think we hope it will, which is that, you know, the Rockets beat a bad Wizards team by a comfortable margin, then maybe we can talk a little bit more about the buyout market on Monday, or maybe the Rockets have even signed someone that point and we can react to that.

But yeah, we'll have Michael Shapiro, Kron.com with us for that one.

All right.

Welcome in, everybody.

Rockets get a big, big win in Charlotte tonight, 105 to 101.

A game that I think a lot of people who aren't even Rockets fans were probably tuned in to watch, given all the chaos and all the stories that we saw since, you know, All-Star Game Day, basically, when this news that Kevin Durant may or may not have had a burner started.

Everybody wants to see how Kevin Durant is going to play, how he's going to interact with his teammates, how his teammates are going to play in response to, you know, what he may or may not have said.