It wasn't so long ago (the summer of 2013, to be exact) that signing Dwight Howard was the goal of half the NBA teams. Now, as trade season kicks off less than three years later, the Houston Rockets may not be able to give him away.
They're trying, though, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical.
Houston has cratered after somewhat improbably reaching the conference finals last season. And while Howard's on-court slippage probably ranks somewhere among the top 10 reasons the Rockets have declined, it's certainly not the biggest.
The point, though, is that Houston finds itself in a reflective position. This season's failure forces the Rockets to ask where they are in their trajectory and, more importantly, who on this current roster figures into that flight path.
Suddenly, Predictably Unwanted
The Rockets must know they're not a title threat, but they must also understand they're not anywhere close to the point where tanking makes sense.
With Howard likely to opt out of the final year of his deal this summer, according to a report from Sam Amic ...
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