They had no option but to part with him in the Durant trade, but he's now shown them twice this season the intensity he can put forward on a nightly basis.
So far this season, the Houston Rockets' trade for superstar scorer Kevin Durant has paid massive dividends, rendering them one of the most dominant teams in the Western Conference and giving their offense the major boost they needed to vault them into championship contention.
Yet, in both games that Dillon Brooks has played against Houston this season, he has flashed the intensity and the scoring ability that endeared him so heavily to Rockets' fans in the first place, and, as a result, he has cut through any of the debate that surrounded his time with the team.