Hello and welcome to group chat the ringers weekly MBA discussion where we talk about literally everything because that's what happened in Ukraine.

Entire offseason into two weeks. I am Justin very are joining me today Jonathan Charkes.

What's up guys?

Rob Mahoney. What a time to be alive Justin. What a time to be alive.

And our special guest today a man of many podcasts. From the dunked on basketball podcast Nate Duncan. What's up man?

Excited for my ringer debut. How's it going guys?

Hey, it's going great. So today we've got a lot of news up top. We're going to talk about Chris Paul.

But potentially going to the Phoenix Suns. We're going to talk about some Houston rockets scuttle butt that just keeps picking up steam by the week.

We're going to talk about a coach a new coach in OKC who we can't pronounce his first name or his last name. Sorry.

And then we're going to get into some draft preview stuff in the back end.

But first we're going to take a quick break and then we come back. We're going to get all that stuff.

All right. So a lot of news to get into here. Nate as the guest. I'll give you the choice here. What do you want to talk about?

It's got to be rockets, right? Let's do it.

So the report from ESPN today is that James Harden and Russell Westbrook have expressed concern about the direction of the franchise through direct conversations or discussions.

I don't know the differences with the representatives and the rockets front office sources said.

Yada yada. However, the concerns expressed by Harden and Westbrook that Houston's window as a contender could be closing has left the organization fearful.

That the superstar's commitment to remaining with the rockets could be wavering and probably our favorite part of this report.

Neither player has requested a trade at this point, though the scenario has become a plausible eventual possibility.

So it's a lot of words here and credit to take with man who along with wode wrote this story.

I imagine having to phrase this delicately is a true.

You could do a master class on that. But Nate, what is your just reaction to this report here?

Don't put all your assets in for a true holiday trade now because James Harden could be available at the deadline.

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