via Shook Ankles: One Team’s Trash Is Another’s Team’s Treasure « Shaky Ankles: What people seem to forget when talking about/evaluating/processing basketball players, is their ability to improve in a relatively short time frame. Flynn averaged 13.5 points per game on 42 percent shooting as a 20-year-old starting point guard on the league’s most unfocused franchise. [...]
via the Denver Post: Nene will opt out of the final year of his contract worth nearly $12 million and, as a result, become an unrestricted free agent, a source familiar with the situation said Wednesday night. It means Nene can sign with any team he wishes without the Nuggets getting a chance to match [...]
Depending on your opinion of Earl Clark, it can be said that the Rockets now employ the four biggest busts from the draft class of 2009. Even Gerald Henderson and Tyler Hansbrough have produced more thus far in their careers than the local team’s quartet. That Houston has compiled these players is not too great [...]
At the time of last winter’s deadline, there was mixed reaction on the Rockets’ trading of Aaron Brooks and Shane Battier. Both players were starters and integral components of the franchise’s last playoff team, yet both were slated to become free agents this summer; the club was not expected to retain either player’s services. Last [...]
Dating back to the seven minute mark of game 6 of the ’97 West Finals, the above game marked the absolute high point of the last fifteen years for the Houston Rockets franchise. Up 2-0 going home, it was not simply that Houston seemed to face a sure path to the Finals. It was that [...]
