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The silly season underway in the NBA,

the supernatural meets of the bizarre, the unusual, the surreal.

It's draft week with all the rumors going everywhere.

And the latest rumor-de-jure being tossed out involves the Houston Rockets.

Well, it's actually damage control by Darry, the GM of the Rockets.

Remember, they were the hot story a couple of weeks ago about how they were going to unload one of their star players.

With Darry is speaking out about the supposed bad blood, the brouhaha that took place in the Rockettes locker room there.

If you did not hear about this, I'll fill you in.

I'll get you cut up to speed. So Darry said that he takes these reports of tension between Chris Paul and James Harden as a positive. He said, no, why would that be? Mori claimed because it means that

both of these players want to win. They're winners, and they want to win.

I'm paraphrasing some of that.

But he spoke in a radio interview, Darry, and said that Chris Paul had not asked to be

traded from the Rock.

But everyone is just frustrated.

Everyone in the organization is frustrated because they couldn't get past Golden State.

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