To Win or Not to Win,

Is That Really the Question?

Just leave it to belligerently idiotic people on sports radio to question whether a professional sports team should throw some games to get a better draft spot. This all spawned from the Rockets doing what every Houston sports team seems to do every year which is make a late season run to keep all of us fans on the edge of our seats only to let us down in the end. And from the sound of these know nothing idiots on the radio, the majority of Rockets fans in Houston would rather have the Rockets lose instead of trying to make the playoffs. At no point ever is it OK for a professional sports team to throw games, even if there is a once in a lifetime prospect that is going to be in the draft. The reason being that once it is done (even once), the integrity of the game itself is gone and in the end, if the game's integrity is gone, then the game is meaningless. All sports are based on the premise that at their very core, before anything begins, every team is on a level playing field and that every team will do whatever it can to win the game fairly and by the rules of the game.

So all you people who keep saying that the Rockets as they are built now cannot win a championship, you have no idea what will happen if the make the playoffs. I am not going to bore you trying to break down a Rockets vs. Lakers 7-game series, but just remember that the Rockets have already won a championship as a 6 seed in the '94-'95 season. Anything can happen at any time and that is what sport great.

So to anyone else who tells me the Rockets need to lose out to increase to draft position, I swear I will rip them through a hell-portal into a place where the Benny Hill theme song, “Yakety Sax” plays nonstop and the only thing on TV are reruns of Project Runway.