In a wing-driven league, perhaps it will end up being the right call certainly Green looked like the real deal in his limited summer league stint. It was an interesting draft night as the Rockets opted for Green’s high-wire athleticism over the playmaking of Jalen Suggs or the shot-blocking and switchability of Evan Mobley with the second-overall pick.
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Re-signed SG Dante Exum (three years, $7.5 million plus incentives, non-guaranteed).Re-signed SF David Nwaba (three years, $15 million, third-year team option).Sent $1.1 million cash to Chicago and signed-and-traded for C Daniel Theis (four years, $43 million, fourth-year player option).Traded two future first-round picks to Oklahoma City for 16th pick drafted C Alperen Şengün.Drafted SG Jalen Green (second), PF Usman Garuba (23rd) and SG Josh Christopher (24th).It was a pretty quiet offseason for Houston with the exception of draft night, as the Rockets settle in for a year-long slumber near the bottom of the West. Houston walked away from the season in a full-on rebuild but also had four picks in the 2021 first round and four more coming from Brooklyn, Miami and Atlanta in future drafts, offsetting the two it still owes Oklahoma City from the disastrous trade of Chris Paul for Westbrook. Somewhere along the way, Victor Oladipo waltzed through town for a few weeks, an odd mini-saga where the team essentially chose Oladipo over a package of Jarrett Allen and Taurean Prince in the three-team Harden trade, and then ended up flipping him for a late first-round pick. could bear more fruit - Porter was occasionally electrifying, including a 50-point eruption against Milwaukee, but the questions about on his on-court wildness and off-court issues (the reason he was available in the first place) haven’t gone away. Houston found a defensive stopper in overseas pickup Jae’Sean Tate and may have nailed a late draft pick with 58th pick Kenyon Martin Jr.
A sign-and-trade for Christian Wood cost them a protected first but delivered a 25-year-old center who was their best player in 2020-21. It wasn’t all bad, as the Rockets made some quality transactions below the radar. (“Sure, Portland is a decent job, as long as Chauncey doesn’t get Silased.”) A team that went into the 2020 offseason as a top-four team in the West centered around James Harden and Russell Westbrook ended the early part of the season without either player, and instead rebuilding around some young guards and a horde of draft picks from trading those two and P.J. Yep, Stephen Silas got kind of a raw deal with his first coaching job, so bad that you heard people reference it regarding other openings this past summer. Silased (v.): The experience of being hired to coach a good team with a transcendent superstar, only to almost immediately end up coaching one of the worst teams in the league instead. 15, we’ll unveil team previews from The Athletic’s John Hollinger, who will be analyzing each squad on a variety of factors going into this season.Ģ020-21 season: 17-55 (15th in West), 27th in offense, 27th in defense Where we left off
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