Howard Beck

And the team they lose to the Bucks goes and wins the championship.

It wasn't a complete failure in Brooklyn and it ends up being a failure because then Harden gets tired of Kyrie missing games because of the vaccine refusal.

So now Harden's out, Kyrie sours, he's out.

Like that was not a KD thing.

Um, he ends up in Phoenix where he wanted to be, but they also went and spent a bunch of shit to go get Bradley Beal.

Like they, they, they made bad moves around him and, and book.

So again, were there locker room things pre probably, but,

The Suns were not a good, they made bad decisions and they did not have a good roster.

And then he gets sent to Houston.

And now there's this massive age gap.

It's him at 37 and Amin Thompson and Reed Shepard and Alperen Shangoon, who are all younger in their careers.

It's a difficult marriage.

Not to excuse anything, just to say, like, the idea of the plug-and-play thing, I don't think it's diminished or should be dispelled just because there's been a weird few years here, not all of which was in Kevin Durant's control.

And all that said, this Houston season might have been different if they don't lose Fred VanVleet and Steven Adams and or if they had actually replaced Fred VanVleet on the roster.

I don't mean replace him, replace him, but replace his skillset.

Negative.

There are a lot of different ways you could go with this, but I'll start with this.

They're currently slotted 11th in the lottery, which is happening the most blessed day on the NBA calendar, the NBA draft lottery.

Ping pong balls dropping in like two weeks, less than two weeks.

They have a 9.4% chance for a top four pick.