Whether the Houston Rockets should trade Omer Asik is not a simple question. It opens a whole host of grander, more philosophical queries about the nature of the team’s direction.
Asik was on the trading block for the first two months of 2013-14 season, and it seemed obvious that the Rockets should move him.
They had, after all, just signed Dwight Howard to a lucrative deal to be their starting center, and the experiment of playing the two players together looked to be a failure after some early-season folly.
“Any time you have two bigs like that, you’re going to have a slow pace. It’s not what we want,” general manager Daryl Morey said in an interview with ESPN.com. “And the fact that it hasn’t created a big rebounding edge is a problem.”
Asik was subsequently made available to teams, and ESPN.com's Marc Stein and Brian Windhorst reported that he was nearly dealt to the Boston Celtics.
But Morey seemingly never saw a deal he liked, and the Rockets kept Asik.
He stayed out of the rotation due to injuries for weeks af ...
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