The guy with the most stayed with one team tho

He was playing against a league of white dudes

Jordan wasn’t. LeBron not reaching 6 while team hopping would be an indictment against his case for GOAT. I’m thinking this is the last hoorah for LeBron, 4th ring his last chip before retiring

I don't know what it takes to win anymore. The 1994 and 1995 Houston Rockets will be all I have for a long time!
The 2017 Astros don't count to me anymore. The Houston Texans will never advance past the divisional round.
Being a Houston sports fan is cruel and sad. I wish I could've saved myself a lot of trouble when I was a little kid.

I also think Harden and Giannis need to team up in order for both of them to win an NBA Title!
Unless LeBron's body starts to wear down. It will in another 2 or 3 years. Harden is 31 though.

It's pretty obvious he wants to play on the same team as his son. His contract is up the off season before his son would be getting drafted.

Try being a Detroit fan

I know! I feel bad for fans of the Detroit Lions. The Texans have won a lot more than they have since their expansion season in 2002.

James Harden has three years left at $41M, $44M and $47M.
Russell Westbrook has three years left at $41M, $44M and $47M.

Both of them have the same supermax contracts. Hard to build a deep team with two guys like that.
I just want to get through the next three years and start over. Fresh new start. Build through the draft.

If we can start tanking sooner maybe we can get into the Bronnie James and Zaire Wade sweepstakes come their draft class!

We've got three more years of pretending like we're going to compete for an NBA Title and then we can start to do that...

This post was edited by Madmartigan on Sep 19 2020 05:58pm

Tank and go for the highest potential players, take on bad contracts to acquire more assets until you got a certified all star, once you got an all star, go all in on a free agent or trade everything for another, fill in the gaps with title chasing free agents, done.

NBA is easy, just don't fuck up and pair the wrong all stars together, like Harden/Westbrook.

You're right but how were the Lakers able to do it so easily? They got very lucky with the Anthony Davis trade. He quit on New Orleans and forced his way out a year sooner than his contract was set to expire. Just having LeBron wasn't a slam dunk guarantee. They missed the playoffs his first year there. They definitely needed a second superstar and AD just so happened to be the perfect fit with LeBron James.

Also the James Harden tenure since his acquisition from the Thunder hasn't been 100% terrible for the Rockets. Sure, the Harden and Howard and Harden and Westbrook tandem greatly backfired. But the Harden and Paul tandem worked very well together. We had a 65-17 team a couple years ago that took a Dream Team caliber Warriors team to a Game 7 (in our arena) in the Western Conference Finals. It just sucks Chris Paul's hamstring blew up in Game 5 of that series. Not to say we'd have won Game 6 or Game 7 with CP3 but obviously our odds would've been better.

But for sure James Harden, Chris Paul, Ariza, Tucker. Gordon and Capela had size with length. They could shoot and defend!
People will hardly remember that 65-win Rockets team many years from now. But they were so good! Damn CP3's hamstring...

I think above all else you need some luck staying healthy. Not to make excuses but Russ wasn't Russ in these playoffs.
He was dealing with a strained right quad after coming back from COVID-19. Russell Westbrook may be good next year.
But personally, I hear rumors the New York Knicks may take his contract off our hands. Hey, let's make a deal if you want.