The Houston Rockets offseason is reminiscent of the famous Saturday Night Live "Cowbell" sketch, a fictional reenactment of Blue Oyster Cult recording "(Don’t Fear) the Reaper."
Will Ferrell plays "Gene Frenkle," a cowbell player. Christopher Walken is “the Bruce Dickinson,” a producer who keeps prompting Frenkle for “more cowbell” even though it’s quite clearly awful and out of rhythm. Frenkle obliges in the most obstreperous manner possible.
As Rockets general manager Daryl Morey inked each new free agent this offseason, I flashed to Frenkle’s clanging contributions and pictured Morey declaring, "We need more cowbell!