🤢 what the fuck

Kelly definitely got paid the last few years to treat us like a shit tier organization. It’s okay, really when you recognize that.

Think about it: this guy writes an article about a trade between Houston and Indiana, there are 3 types of fans reading that: Houston fans, Indiana fans, and NBA fans. The latter two both love talking about dumb shit like this at the expense of a bad org. This will generate clicks because people will send their friends “Imagine Haliburton with Sengun bro”.

On the other hand, realistic trade scenarios for the Rockets would get 0 traction the past few years. For starters, we didn’t even really WANT to win, so our objectives in trades aren’t as simple as “lets improve our team with this trade so we can win more games”. There was always a balancing act for the trade to be good, and for it to benefit us long term.

And then secondly, our fans did not engage with Rockets articles. We’re not really a basketball city, so when the team is shit, so is engagement.