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Reflecting back on the Houston Rockets’ 1996 blockbuster trade for Charles Barkley

In this week’s episode, I looked back on one of the most controversial moves in Houston Rockets history: the 1996 trade that sent budding stars Robert Horry and Sam Cassell to Phoenix for future Hall of Famer Charles Barkley. Many feel now that the deal was ill-advised, prematurely breaking up a team that had won consecutive NBA championships. However, as I explain in Episode 103, I still maintain to this day that the move was the right one to make.

It wasn’t until after I had finished recording the episode that I remembered that during All-Star weekend in Houston a few years back, I had actually asked both Horry and Cassell about their thoughts on the trade.