Ben DuBose

And so I think the checkpoints, they're not meant to be like super literal.

But I do think that

It's a useful guide as we look ahead to the offseason for what scenarios they're more likely to be okay staying the course and which ones they might be a bit more active.

And it's not all going to depend on that.

So that's also going to depend on exactly what players come available.

But I just think that's a general guide that we can use heading towards the summer.

hopefully we won't have to talk about that for a while because hopefully the Rockets start winning a lot more games move their way up the standings and have a nice extended playoff run the likes of which we're very optimistic about just a few months ago when this team was put together anyway with that I will bring this episode to a close and by the way some breaking news the Rockets will be practicing uh midday today so if you want to hear from Kevin Durant it might happen then if you're worried about you know the interactions of the team and how it looks you'll definitely have some uh

some video from reporters on the scene at the Rockets practice facility before they fly to Charlotte.

So any of those concerns, we'll have a lot more info later today.

So to bring it full circle to those people wanting more discussions, I think you're going to get them unless it's just somehow entirely fake news.

And I agree with you, Paolo, that's unlikely.

There's at least a little bit of truth to it.

That's my suspicion as well.

In terms of what it means moving forward, the reason people aren't talking about it is because we just, we don't have the information we need to make a super strong opinion just yet.

We'll start getting that information within a few hours and certainly when the team resumes play tomorrow night in Charlotte.

So we'll talk more about it in future pods.

Just stay tuned.

I just think at least for diehard fans of the Rockets, we're not going to rush to any conclusions.

We want to be optimistic.

We want this team to work out.