Well, that was quick. Time to record again. This was not something that anyone remotely saw coming, especially after Jill Mori.

Assured us all that Chris Paul would start the season on the Houston Rockets, but I'm sure he would point to a material change in circumstances there.

What do we got to any?

Russell Westbrook, for the first time in his career, is no longer a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

He is being traded to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Chris Paul and two first round picks in 24 and 26.

Each of those is protected one through four and then pick swaps in 2021 and 2025.

Yeah, the pick swap in 2021 is lottery protected one through four.

The 2025 one is more interesting. Seems less likely to convey because it's protected one through 20.

So really the only circumstances in which side it conveys, if both OKC and Houston are both picking between 21 to 30 and OKC has a slightly worse record than Houston.

Who knows about 2025? They could be pretty darn good.

Not so sure, Houston's going to be any good in 2025.

But any event, this is definitely more from OKC's standpoint than it seemed like they could get for Rustbook.

That somewhere saying it was an inevitability that he would get moved to Miami, but with Miami out to future first round picks.

Miami having their own salary that's bad but shorter that they could send back and also the hard cap issues as well,

where they couldn't offer to save OKC much money, at least in the short term where they're trying to get out of the repeater tax this year.

And you know, it seemed Miami was like, well, you don't have anything else.

Why are we going to offer so much here? Westbrook is a bad contract, owed 170 million over the next four years.

Who else can they trade them to? Well, the answer was the Houston Rockets.

And I think the place to start with here, we can talk about OKC a little bit more.

Later on is the basketball fit of Westbrook in Houston because they are trading for a contract that is not great.

They are getting off of a contract that is equally not great. Westbrook, I don't know, maybe that's a place to start, Danny,

is just so maybe not the best. Well, if it is just would you consider Russell Westbrook a better asset than Chris Paul certainly the league does.

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