This is a picture.

That's a picture he didn't want to go for.

Eight.

Ladies and gentlemen, There you go, Robert, Welcome.

We love you've been here is a guest, But now you're officially part of the family.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Finally, someone that's respected on set from a player standpoint to balance you out, that's really what's important for us.

Um, you guys just heard my conversation with Commissioner Adam Silver.

We talked about the James Harden situation.

Robert, what has been your reaction?

My former Houston Rockets friend, um, to hardens initial trade request and, frankly, his actions since then, which led to a $50,000 fine yesterday.

You know, he's been very fortunate that the Rockets have sort of bent over backwards for all his requests, so he could be return that favor.

And he's going out and being as like, everyone is saying unprofessional, and it's kind of disappointed in the sense that he doesn't realize that he's he's looked upon as a leader of this team, not just a leader of team leader of the MBA.

So people are eyeballing him and want to say, Hey, how are you gonna handle this situation?

There's so many times that athletes want to say, Oh, I don't wanna be here and have situations.

Allow me on having a situation with Danny age.

But, you know, you have to be professional.

I hate what?

How I handled my situation.

But for me, it ended up really great.

It brought me talking on Sanders later e won three championships, But with him, you know that Zbynek done so he needs to be common sense because he has to think like this.

It's hard to trade me because I asked for the max contract.

I'm making $40 million.

And in this day and age, you just can't go where you wanna go when you're making that much money.

Yeah, like that's a great point.

And I'm so glad growing up in Phoenix, I'm glad that you were gonna throw the towel throw?

No, because look, we ask players every every player down the line has done something that you're like.

Okay, that was a mistake.

That was unprofessional.

Myself included.

Everyone has, like, that's just part of doing it for an extended period of time.

But James is not helping himself.

He's just not I don't care what he says.

I don't care what the beef is.

We know you want out the Houston Rockets air shopping You.

So what?

Your best thing that you can do right now is be as professional as possible or else it's going to take longer to get you out of there, right?

Like you don't have to be a model citizen for Houston.

But you do have to be a model citizen as far as like how the league is viewing you, Thio make this trade easier.

Yeah, and look, I think his trade value is still gonna be high enough.

He's James Harden.

He's been top five and M V P.

The last six the last seven years.

Players like that just don't become available.

But that being said, you do have a responsibility to your teammates, right?

John Wall, boogie cousins James Harden.

They have no beef with each other, right?

They like each other, their friends on.

At some point, you are making these two guys in particular who are finally getting back into the MBA after extremely grueling injury rehab, not get off to the start.

They deserve frankly.

And I just I wish I could see a little bit more accountability between teammates just because you have special privileges as a superstar.

But that's not but but that right there is not special privilege that is just being an ass like.

That's just like what you're doing right there.

Given all of the things that are going on, everything that our country is dealing with, everything that's going on in our sport like this was the first game that is now postponed.

Like you're being an ass like what you did in Vegas.

Okay, that's fine.

You're here now, that's fine.

But then you didn't go out.

You're not allowed to go to these places.

You know the rules.

And it doesn't matter if you behave like this.

They're not gonna allow this in Miami or in, you know, Philly or in another place.

So why do it now?