The Rockets' trade exception, worth as much as $4.2 million expires Tuesday, meaning Houston will be subject to many trade rumors over the next three days.

Any team over the luxury tax, and especially the few that could get under the tax trigger number, $65.42 million, with a deal with the Rockets will be calling to try to dump a salary on the Rockets.

But the rest of the league will not be working to make the Rockets better.

"There's a chance," Dawson said. "We're looking at a lot of things."

They are $3.68 million under the luxury tax threshold. If you assume they won't add more than that, and if they are dealing with teams just barely over the tax number, there would not seem to be much to inspire a deal.