Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast offseason preview series where Bryce Simon and I dive deep into every NBA teams offseason and all of the difficult decisions they have to make in the month of July.

Today we're talking about the Houston Rockets.

One of the teams that Bryce and I talk about more than any other in the league.

We've been talking about them before they finish second in the Western Conference this

year and we will talk about them for quite a long while because of their intriguing

team build with all of their young players.

But before we do that, we do just want to shout out all of the listeners.

Thank you all for hanging out with us.

You have had us surpass 42,000

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leave a like, go listen on the podcast feeds as well. These go up about every day around 12 or so Eastern time. You'll be able

to listen to these if you're not by a computer. So thank you all so, so much for how successful

this series has been. But Bryce, it's time to get into Houston, a team that, you know, again,

we love. We love the Houston Rockets. We talk about them so often.

We find their team build fascinating.

We find their decisions fascinating.

I love everything I see from the Houston Rockets by and large, except for one minor exception,

I would argue.

But look, this is a team that had a crazy amount of success

this year with a very young team. They won over 50 games. They were the second seed. Yes,

they lost the Golden State Warriors and seven, but it was a competitive series. It was tough

against the team with, you know, Stefan Curry, Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green.

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