While the Houston Rockets are participating in what is just the nature of the business, the way the business is handled can scar the team and damage the intangible of team chemistry for the upcoming season. The Rockets didn’t improve from a 41 win team to a 55 win team strictly on off-season signings and adjustments on the offensive end, though that certainly helped.
But it also helped that one of the two feuding superstars took off for free agency and the team was no longer under a dark cloud of continuous controversy and who knows how many closed door locker room fights transpired in that 2015-2016 season.