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Warriors be reporter for the Mercury News and host of Lockton Warriors here with David Rimmel, the host of Lockton Heat, and on today's show,

we'll discuss where the Houston Rockets grow from here without Darrow Mori.

The players who will impact this off season the most and if Tyloo can do what Doc Rivers couldn't

and get the clippers to the final.

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In the days after Dale Mori resigned as the Rockets Rockets general manager there's been a lot written about how much Mori and Moriball changed the NBA and while I think that topic is certainly worth exploring I want to move the conversation forward a little David.

Because with both Mori and Mike Dantone,

James Harden is looking around that organization.

He's without the guys who built this thing around him

and he's left with an owner who has shown at every

step to favor being cheap over trying to win a title according to reports more he

left Houston because of personal reasons but he also left them when the small ball experiment was at the end of its rope, right?

They traded all the centers, they were playing Jeff Green at the five.

Like this was kind of the end point of that experiment, and so I don't care what these reports say that definitely played a role in this decision

but James Harden is still there he has two more years left on his contract he's 31 years old

and he's yet to win the championship that was cement his status is one of the greatest guards of ever of all time

So if I'm James Harden

It's a no-brainer to demand a trade isn't it? I don't know.

I think that's an interesting question and I think it's a it's big, it says a lot about what

hardens priorities are and I've debated the topic personally on my show I even broke down like possible

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