Trade Deadline Prep with John Hollinger
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily presented by Amazon Prime for January 13th, 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Keita and John Hollinger. Coming up, we're going deep with John Hollinger on John Morant trades, Michael Porter Jr. trades, rookies that he likes, everything. Stick around.
Good morning, everybody. Hey, Zena. Hey, John Hollinger joining the show. Thanks for hanging out with us. John's in Sacramento. You've been what? Stalking the Houston Rockets. What are you doing in Sacramento right now?
Just, you know, just just seeing if the if the Kings can manage to try to win and still be worse than all the teams that are tanking. I think it's a fascinating story. They actually they actually won one yesterday, but. Yeah, I did. No, no. Just sort of luck of the draw. I had a good back to back here with Houston, L.A. in town. And it's actually a wonderful place to come to do this if it weren't for the team. Like, yeah, I mean, it's a beautiful arena. It tells me all the time how much you love Sacramento.
Great coffee here. Yeah. Yeah. You actually had a really good story at the Athletic yesterday about the Rockets and the way that they had to get to the arena. So what happened there? There were no rooms at the end. Is that the situation? What's going on in Sacramento that was preventing the Rockets from getting a hotel?
So basically, there's one hotel here where everyone tries to stay. It's the Sawyer, and it's connected to the arena. It's the nicest hotel. So when I worked with the Grizzlies, I kind of helped with a lot of our team travel. It was one of my jobs because everyone wears like 20 hats in an NBA front office. And so I know somehow the sausage gets made here. So basically, the Lakers are here. We're already in the hotel because they're playing today. And the Knicks flew from Portland after their game yesterday afternoon to Sacramento because they want to get out of the rain, even though they don't play here until Wednesday. So kind of a quirk. They had three days off. We were just like, yeah, we're going to get the hell out of Portland and come down.
So I think they booked their hotels first. So then the Rockets didn't have any any room tonight. And so I don't know what blocked them. Two nights ago. I'm not sure because those teams weren't there then. But anyway, so they stayed in San Francisco the last two nights and they took a bus. You know, I mean... You guys know, I mean, it's 85 miles. Usually doesn't take 85 minutes, though. So I'm not sure how long it took. I mean, it was a Sunday afternoon. Maybe it wasn't that bad, but they had to leave early and allow for all that. And they're just kind of get to the arena. They're at the end of a road trip already. They've played a title league record 23 of 36 on the road. Like they looked exhausted yesterday.
And. it it showed i mean they lost they lost to the kings um and they and they flew back to houston right after the game i mean most teams in the central time zone i know that's where we were in when you play in california you stay over and then you fly the next day so you don't get in at like 4 a.m and the rockets were just like screw this we out of here um because again they didn't have anywhere to stay here anyway um and again and again i mean there's certain things like when you travel with an nba team you can't just stay at the north natomas la quinta inn you know like you guys they're they're There's only a couple.
We're going to have to bleep this so La Quinta doesn't hate us.
La Quinta's taking some strays. No offense, guys.
I will say they let your dog stay for free. So shout out to La Quinta when you're traveling across the country.
That's good to know. We're giving them some free publicity. If you have an NBA team and all the players have their dog with them, then La Quinta is it. That's right.
Let's pivot away from that very strange travel story, which is Very interesting. And I have questions for the Sawyer.
What challenges did the Houston Rockets face during their stay in Sacramento?
But alas, there are questions being had around the league, around a particular player in Tennessee.
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