Zena Keita

Did you guys know that Connick Nipple...

Is from history.

Has a little pedigree.

His uncle did a little stint in the NBA.

There's a lot I didn't know and I got to learn from your piece.

But

Just spending time around his family, I think that to me was enough to learn why, even when he didn't want to play basketball, or maybe when he didn't have the original love for it, and he fell in love with it through history books and encyclopedias, I felt like his family probably had a lot to do with that.

What do you think...

The the roots of where he comes from, his mom being willing to go down to Duke to possibly pick him up and being like, it's not all about basketball.

It doesn't have to all about be about basketball.

What do you think that did for his ability to just be phenomenal now in his space, in his sport?

Good to see you.

How have you done since the trade deadline?

No, I'm absolutely worried.

You have Kevin Durant.

You have Alperen Changoon.

You've got a healthy Houston Rockets squad who, by the way, just told the entire league, we're good with this squad.

We feel very confident going into the trade deadline that we've got exactly the pieces we need in order to make some noise in the West.

And you're going up against a Shea-less, a Jalen William-less OKC team, and Kaysen Wallace is doing y'all dirty.

He looked amazing.