You are no doubt familiar with the term schadenfreude, a German word meaning roughly, taking joy in the sadness of others. It’s an emotion almost all of us have felt.
For most of the past two seasons, the Rockets have been in a sort of silo. One of watching for player development, and hoping for losses. The Rockets have controlled their own fate, in terms of their rebuild, to extent allowed by lottery balls. That’s changing.
The Brooklyn picks and swaps are on the horizon, and the picks sent to OKC are seeing their protections drop to top four, meaning the Rockets could be in the draft position of Pistons this year, and OKC would have that pick instead of the Rockets.