Ben DuBose

How I feel about it is not the story.

This is not, you know, how do we feel about Kevin Durant?

Is he going to win Times Man of the Year, or I guess hypothetically, Teammate of the Year in 2026?

This is about how it affects the Houston Rockets as a basketball team, at least from our perspective.

Maybe there's others around the NBA that are into the clickbait, but for us, it's how does it affect the Rockets and whether they win or lose games.

And...

The ultimate story there is still to be told, and it's not going to be decided by how we feel.

It's going to be decided by how the players feel, the leadership of Ime Udoka and Kevin Durant, and what happens moving forward.

And that's if at least parts of this are true, which we still don't know yet.

So that's why I haven't weighed in too heavily on podcasts or my social media pages.

It's not that I'm trying to avoid it.

It's just in terms of what actually matters, taking predictive value moving forward, what it means in the locker room to these guys and on the court in the weeks ahead.

I mean, it's about how they process it.

And we haven't even talked to the guys yet, let alone seen them on the practice court, in real games, behind the scenes.

It's...

so speculative at this point that I just, you know, some of the memes are funny and it's certainly something I'm watching with a raised eyebrow, but I don't, I don't see the point in rushing a take or jumping to any conclusions.

And that's why, you know, it's not that I'm averse to talking about it.

I've seen that storyline that, oh, why are people just trying to sweep this under the rug?

I don't think it's bad.

It's just in terms of what it means for the Rockets, that's still to be determined, right?